Open Access FNS Current Limitations and Challenges with Lactic Acid Bacteria: A Review (original) (raw)

bution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) play a critical role in food, agricultural, and clinical applications. The fast growing charac-teristics of LAB and their metabolic activity have been the key in most applications including food production, agricul-tural industry, and probiotics. However, the biochemical and biophysical environments have significant effect on the growth and metabolic activity of LAB. While the biochemical conditions are most likely established, controlling and optimizing of biochemical conditions have many limitations and challenges. In addition to selecting the right strain, desirable metabolic processes required optimizing and controlling the available nutrients including sugars, peptides, free amino acids, minerals, and vitamins in addition to buffering agents. Thus, much of research was conducted to under-stand the impact of availa...

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