Kombucha Research & Scientific Studies

30 search results for "antimicrobial"

MICROBIAL FERMENTED TEA - A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF NATURAL FOOD PRESERVATIVES

By Haizhen Mo, Yang Zhu, Zongmao Chen

Antimicrobial activities of microbially fermented tea are much less known than its health beneficial properties. These antimicrobial activities are generated in natural microbial fermentation processes with tea leaves as substrates. The antimicrobial components produced during the fermentation ...

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PB(II) REMOVAL FROM SYNTHETIC WASTEWATER USING KOMBUCHA SCOBY AND GRAPHENE OXIDE/FE3O4

By Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi, Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Ali Mohammad Amani, Hossein Esmaeili, Younes Ghasemi, Aziz Babapoor, Fatemeh Mojoudi, Omid Arjomand

... antimicrobial specifications of Kombucha scoby, this unique colony can be used for wastewater treatment and removal of heavy metals. Herein, the efficiency of graphene oxide/Fe3O4 nanoparticles (GO/Fe3O4) and Kombucha Scoby in the removal of Pb (II) from synthetic wastewater were examined ...

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PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOCOMPOSITE FILM BASED ON CHITOSAN AND KOMBUCHA TEA AS ACTIVE FOOD PACKAGING

By Ashrafi Azam, Maryam Jokar, Abdorreza Mohammadi Nafchi

... antimicrobial activity of chitosan/KT film against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus was evaluated using the agar diffusion test, and its antioxidant activity was determined using DPpH assay. The results revealed that incorporation of KT into chitosan films improved the water vapor ...

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STUDIES ON THE MICROBIOLOGY OF KOMBUCHA (TEA FUNGUS)

By Selma E Ahmed, Hamid A Dirar

... acid giving the flavor of the drink. The yeasts isolated from Kombucha were mainly Debaryomyces, and the bacterium of importance was Acetobacter xylinum. Kombucha`s antimicrobial activity was conferred by the organic acids, and this is commonly known for other acidic fermented foods and ...

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STUDY OF THE EFFETS OF SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE AND TEA KOMBUCHAON THE INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA OF RABBITS

By S L Perez, B S Lagunas, B A De La Cruz, M R Fajardo, B A Diaz Gonzalez

... antimicrobial effect on the isolated bacterial genera. Kombucha supernatant had an inhibitory (P <0.05) effect on the genera E. coli, Plesiomona spp, Serratia spp, Salmonella spp, Yersinia spp, Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas spp, Actinobacillus spp, Moraxella spp, Alcaligenes spp, Pasteurella ...

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