date:Jul 31, 2012
Study details
The team tested two starter culture mixtures at several cocoa farm sites in two different cocoa-producing regions (West Africa and Southeast Asia).
De Vuyst and his colleagues noted that in all starter culture-added cocoa bean fermentation processes, the inoculated starter culture species were able to outgrow the natural contamination of the cocoa pulp-bean mass and they prevailed during cocoa bean fermentation.
The application of both added starter cultures resulted in fermen