Growth and metabolic activity of several new, human origin isolates of Bifidobacterium strains were investigated. All tested bifi dobacteria strains were grown well on the native soymilk medium without any additional nutrients. The fermentation processes cultured with initial cell concentrations in 10 5 -10 7 cfu/ml resulted in 10 8 cfu/ml after 8-12 h of incubation in soymilk, and were kept viable up to the end of fermentation (48 h). Volumetric productivities of B. bifi dum B3.2, B. bifi dum B7.1 and B. breve B9.14 were 1.6×1010 cfu/L.h, 4.5×10 10 cfu/L.h and 7.6×10 9 cfu/L.h, respectively, whereas these values of B. lactis Bb-12 and B. longum Bb-46 probiotic strains were 2.7×10 9 cfu/L.h and 1.0×10 10 cfu/L.h. The α-galactosidase activities were also detected in the intracellular fraction of the disrupted cells. Productions of lactic and acetic acids were in the range of 23-60 mmol/L and 2.4-5.6 mmol/L, respectively. Molar ratios of acetate to lactate in all tested strains varied from 0.05-0.1 that are very promising for further technological development of probiotic fermented soy-based food products.
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