Porphyrin containing lactic acid bacterial cells and use thereof
OwnerAsger Geppel, Borge Windel Kringelum +3inventors
InventorsAsger Geppel, Borge Windel Kringelum, Ken Flemming Hansen, Stig Lykke Iversen, Claus Maxel Henriksen
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Abstract
Culturally modified lactic acid bacterial cells containing a porphyrin compound and their use in a novel method of reducing the oxygen content in a food and feed product or starting material is provided and means of improving the shelf life and/or quality of such products by using the culturally modified bacterial cells. Such culturally modified cells are useful in the manufacturing of a food and a feed product and for the manufacturing of metabolites produced by modified cells.
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A culturally modified lactic acid bacterial cell that has, relative to the cell from which it is derived, an increased content of a porphyrin compound.
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