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Growth of probiotic bacteria and bifidobacteria in a soy yogurt formulation.

Farnworth ER, Mainville I, Desjardins MP, Gardner N, Fliss I, Champagne C

Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, CRDA, 3600 Casavant Blvd.,West, Saint Hyacinthe, QC, Canada J2S 8E3. farnworthed@agr.gc.ca

Soy beverage and cows' milk yogurts were produced with Steptococcus thermophilus (ATCC 4356) and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus (IM 025). The drop in pH during fermentation was faster in the soy beverage than in cows' milk, but the final pH values were similar. Yogurts were prepared with a yogurt starter in conjunction with either the probiotic bacteria Lactobacillus johnsonii NCC533 (La-1), Lactobacillus rhamnosus ATCC 53103 (GG) or human derived bifidobacteria. The presence of the probiotic bacteria did not affect the growth of the yogurt strains. Approximately 2 log increases in both L. rhamnosus GG and L. johnsonii La-1 were observed when each was added with the yogurt strains in both cows' milk and the soy beverage. Two of the five bifidobacteria strains grew well in the cows' milk and soy beverage during fermentation with the yogurt bacteria. High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) analyses showed that the probiotic bacteria and the bifidobacteria were using different sugars to support their growth, depending on whether the bacteria were growing in cows' milk or soy beverage.

Published 2 April 2007 in Int J Food Microbiol, 116(1): 174-81.
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