Review on African traditional cereal beverages

Spontaneous fermentation typically result from the competitive activities of different microorganisms; strains best adapted and with the highest growth rate will dominate during particular stages of the process. Microorganisms involve usually in spontaneous fermentation belong mainly lactic acid bacteria and yeast. Production of African traditional cereal non or alcoholic beverages need two spontaneous fermentations steps : a lactic acid fermentation which is carried out by a complex population of environmental microorganisms and an alcoholic fermentation which is usually initiated by pitching sweet wort with a portion of previous brew or dried yeast harvested from previous beverage. This review deals of the raw materials used for production of non and alcoholic beverages, their technologies production, their importance and risks associated with consomption of these beverages. The review focuses also on the role of spontaneous fermentations in the improving of preservation, nutritional value and sensory quality of these cereal beverages. The socio-cultural and economic aspects, nutritional aspect, sensory characteristics, preservative properties and health benefit aspects of these beverages and microflora involve during spontaneous fermentations will also be reviewed.

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