Chr. Hansen A/s

Borge Windel Kringelum

Inge Helmer Knap

Hans Bisgaard-Frantzen

Asger Geppel

Claus Maxel Henriksen

Stig Lykke Iversen

Ken Flemming Hansen

Rikke Stavnsbjerg

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.

Porphyrin containing lactic acid bacterial cells and use therof

A stable, pellet-frozen lactic acid bacteria (LAB) culture comprises at least one additive compound in a commercial relevant package. The pellet-frozen culture has at least 50 g frozen material and a content of viable bacteria of at least 10colony forming units per gram of frozen material. The individual pellets of the frozen culture do not stick together and remain as individual pellets, when stored at about &#x2212;46&#xb0; C., for at least 7 to 14 days.

Frozen lactic acid bacterial culture of individual pellet

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Ballerup, Denmark

Borge Windel Kringelum