Liha töötlemine
in Mediterranean fermented sausages; they micrococci. Studies on the ecology of fer-
also may contain high levels (1%–3%) of mented sausages showed that LAB, mainly
paprika and/or garlic. Whole mustard seed, Lactobacillus and coagulase-negative cocci
coriander, ginger, cardamom, nutmeg, and (CNC) represented by Micrococcaceae, are
cloves, among other spices, are also used the two main bacterial groups technologi-
in semidry fermented sausage formulation cally important in the fermentation and
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ripening of sausage. During the last decade, Toldrá 2002; Talon et al. 2002). Indeed, the
the diversity of LAB and CNC in traditional complete genome sequence of L. sakei
fermented sausages has been extensively revealed its competitiveness to grow on meat,
investigated (Lebert et al