Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of chitosan on ice cream inoculated with Listeria innocua

• Autor(a) principal: HordÃnia Chagas Azevedo Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFC
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=13077
• topic: sorvete; quitosana; Listeria monocytogenes; ice cream; chitosan; Listeria monocytogenes; CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS

The ice cream consumption in Brazil has grown in recent years and, in parallel to the demands by consumers for safer and less artificial additives food has also increased. The ice cream is a nutritionally enriched food, since the milk has as one of its ingredients. However, this high nutritional value makes the product is very favorable to the growth of micro-organisms being necessary means taking control measures to minimize potential microbiological hazards that may occur by a post-pasteurization contamination. Listeria monocytogenes is among pathogenic microorganisms that may be present in ice cream. It is a widely present in nature bacteria and contaminate the ice cream because of environmental hygiene, manipulator or through failures ingredients added after pasteurisation. An alternative to controlling the growth of micro-organism in foods has been the use of chitosan as an antimicrobial. This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of chitosan as an antimicrobial agent against L. innocua ATCC 3309, replacing the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, by testing medium by determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) and added a food matrix (ice cream). To this end, high molecular weight chitosan was dissolved in a solution of citric acid in the ratio 1:1.5. In the test culture medium with the following concentrations were tested: 50, 100, 200, 400 and 800μg/mL; the test with ice cream, evaluated concentrations were 800, 1200 and 1600μg/mL. The inoculation of L. innocua the basic syrup to ice cream was made in the stage of maturation of syrup and ice cream in their growth was followed for a period of 60 days, this microorganism counting was performed in basic syrup to ice cream immediately after inoculation and 24 hours of aging at 5 Â C. elapsed On ice, the count was conducted at 0, 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 and 60 days. The Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) of L. innocua ATCC chitosan on 330990 was 800μg/mL. Added to ice cream, none of the tested concentrations of chitosan (800, 1200 and 1600 g / ml) reduced the concentration of L. innocua at levels necessary to consider it an antimicrobial substance on the micro-organism in question in a product with following chemical composition: 23.29 to 27.30% carbohydrate, 2.50 to 3.57% protein and 4.91 to 6.50% lipids.