Objective
The project aims to improve three traditional fermented beverages as well as implementing the production of an innovative soy based fermented beverage. These products are Boza, a Turkish cereal based beverage, Ayran, a Turkish mildly fermented milk based slightly diluted yoghurt beverage drunk after water and salt addition and Matsony, a Georgian milk based beverage; these beverages usually contain a high number of viable micro-organisms when drunk. Additionally, a Fermented soy beverage developed in Po land will be the object of analyses, standardisation and implementation into production in a Polish SME. The project involves SME beverage manufacturers, technology and plant suppliers, RTD public bodies and Institutes who will study and characterize fermented beverages and from their natural micro-flora will select strains which play a role in the fermentation process in the production of both acids and flavours The ability of strains to prevent the growth of undesired foreign micro-organisms will be tested to see if they can play a role of natural protection on behalf of these beverages. These strains will be used as starters that will contribute to safeguarding the tastes of traditional products, the biodiversity of the micro-organisms of this ecosystem as well as ensuring the sensory and nutritional benefits in the case of the innovative product Fermented soy beverage. The project tasks will be carried out through trans-national cooperation actions between participants and using a multi stage research approach comprising analyses of drinks, chemical, nutritional, microbiological and sensory characteristics and, where applicable, their functional properties. In this way , the quality of fermented beverages will be improved in accordance with EU food hygiene standards and in order to impact on human health positively stimulating the growth of the fermented beverages market and the competitiveness of SMEs.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry organic acids
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds cereals
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology bioprocessing technologies fermentation
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FP6-2004-SME-COOP
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ROME
Italy
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