“…There are several methods available, such as pH or impedance measurements, to study the kinetics of acidification by lactic starters [3,7,8,19,22,26]. The method of Spinnler and Corrieu [26] involves the calculation of characteristic kinetic parameters from the measurement of pH decrease [1,2,11,23,28]. Picque et al [23] observed that among all the parameters that can be calculated, the best parameters were the maximum acidification rate (V m ), and the time (T m ) and pH (pH m ) at which V m occurred.…”