Prospecting for vitamin-producing lactic acid bacteria in artisanal products from Argentina and Brazil for design of folate enriched foods

• Grant number: 13/50603-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: January 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Food Science and Technology - Food Science
• Agreement: CONICET
• Principal Investigator: Bernadette Dora Gombossy de Melo Franco
• Grantee: Bernadette Dora Gombossy de Melo Franco
• Principal researcher abroad: Jean Guy Leblanc
• Institution abroad: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (FCF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07914-8 - FoRC - Food Research Center, AP.CEPID

Abstract

This proposal aims at the development of the Research project “Prospecting for vitamin-producing lactic acid bacteria in artisanal products from Argentina and Brasil for design of folate enriched foods", with the joint participation of researchers from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil, the Reference Center for Lactobacilli (CERELA), San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina and the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Vitamins from the B group are found in many foods but their consumption by the majority of the population is unsufficient to meet the recommended daily requirements. Certain strains of lactic acid bacteria have the ability to synthesize these vitamins, in a strain-dependent manner. In this project, 1. We aim to isolate lactic acid bacteria capable to produce folate and I or riboflavin from goat milk and other artisanal dairy products, from Brazil and Argentina; 2. Caracterize and assess their potential application in production with food bioenriched with these vitamins; 3. Develop new products with high added value, using the vitamins producing strains. This project is linked to one of the research pillars of CEPID - FORC, FAPESP Process n. 2013/07914-8. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PACHECO DA SILVA, FABIANA FERNANDA; BISCOLA, VANESSA; GUY LEBLANC, JEAN; GOMBOSSY DE MELO FRANCO, BERNADETTE DORA. Effect of indigenous lactic acid bacteria isolated from goat milk and cheeses on folate and riboflavin content of fermented goat milk. LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, v. 71, p. 155-161, SEP 2016. (13/50603-3, 13/07914-8)