Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Katahira

Katsuhiko Ando

Keiko Ochiai

Chiaki Saitoh

Nobuo Ogata

Atsushi Yashiro

Chikara Tokunaga

Kyoko Ozawa

Atsuko Yokoi

The present invention relates to a novel flavoring solution for making pickles having a flavor of foods pickled in rice bran paste (hereinafter referred to as a bran pickles flavoring solution), a clear bran pickles flavoring solution, processes for producing said solutions, a novel microorganism belonging to the genusused for the production of said flavoring solutions, and a process for producing a solution containing a lactone wherein the lactone is selectively extracted from a culture of a lactone-producing microorganism. The present invention also relates to a novel bacterium of the genuswhich has the ability to produce &#x3b3;-dodecalactone and/or &#x3b3;-dodecelactone and is useful for the production of said bran pickles flavoring solutions.

Process for producing a bran pickles flavoring solution

A flavoring solution for making pickles having a flavor of foods pickled in rice bran paste, a clear bran pickles flavoring solution, processes for producing the flavoring solutions, a process for producing lactones which are essential components of the flavoring solutions, and a bacterium belonging to the genus Corynebacterium which is useful for producing a lactone are disclosed. The bacterium is preferably Corynebacterium sp. NK-1 (FERM BP-6329). The lactone is preferably a &ggr; lactone.

Process for producing a lactone using corynebacterium sp. NK-1 (FERM BP-6329)

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