Microbiological analysis of seed sprouts in Norway

Robertson, Lucy J.; Johannessen, Gro S.; Gjerde, Bjørn; Lončarević, Semir

doi:10.1016/s0168-1605(01)00738-3

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“…Significantly, these problems do not occur after the consumption of germinated grain legume seeds with low α-galactoside contents. However, a drawback of the germination process is that it results in an increase in the total number of microorganisms present in the germinated seeds (Robertson et al 2002(Robertson et al , 2005Bremer et al 2003;Thomas et al 2003;Warriner et al 2003). Germination.…”

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Degradation of α-galactosides during the germination of grain legume seeds

Kadlec¹,

Dostálová²,

Bernaskova³

et al. 2008

Czech J. Food Sci.

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Kadlec P., Dostálová J., Bernášková J., Skulinová M. (2008): Degradation of α-galactosides during the germination of grain legume seeds. Czech J. Food Sci., 26: 99-108.Germination is one of the most effective ways of preparing grain legumes for consumption. Because it involves the total or partial elimination of some anti-nutritional compounds, it is also one of the simplest methods of enhancing the palatability of grain legumes, thereby increasing their consumption as a valuable source of nutrition. The main objective of this paper is to describe the changes that take place in α-galactosides during germination. During germination, galactose molecules gradually become detached from α-galactosides due to the effect of the enzyme α-d-galactosidase activated during the process. To simulate the degradation of α-galactosides during legume seed germination, we applied nine equations to the evaluation of the experimental data obtained with the germination of three types of grain legume seeds; mung bean, chickpea, and lentil.

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Degradation of α-galactosides during the germination of grain legume seeds

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Bernaskova³

et al. 2008

Czech J. Food Sci.

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“…The consumption of seed sprouts, which has been ubiquitous for many centuries in oriental culture, has been increasing over the past 30 years (Robertson et al, 2002). The annual average growth of the Korean domestic vegetable industry increased by 0.5% and the value of sprouts and baby greens grew at an annual average of 23.9% from 2002 (7 million dollars) to 2006 (20 million dollars).…”

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“…However, when growing sprouts at home, they can be exposed to an external environment that might have bacteria and harmful insects. When they are exposed, it is likely that sprouts will be contaminated by various viruses and toxic bacteria (Robertson et al, 2002).…”

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Correlations between the Growth Period and Fresh Weight of Seed Sprouts and Pixel Counts of Leaf Area

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Park

Chung

et al. 2014

Journal of Biosystems Engineering

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Purpose: This study was carried out to predict the growth period and fresh weight of sprouts grown in a cultivator designed to grow sprouts under optimal conditions. Methods: The temperature, light intensity, and amount of irrigation were controlled, and images of seed sprouts were acquired to predict the days of growth and weight from pixel counts of leaf area. Broccoli, clover, and radish sprouts were selected, and each sprout was cultivated in a 90-mm-diameter Petri dish under the same cultivating conditions. An image of each sprout was taken every 24 hours from the 4th day, and the whole cultivating period was 6 days, including 3 days in the dark. Images were processed by histogram inspection, binary images, image erosion, image dilation, and the overlay image process. The RGB range and ratio of leaves were adjusted to calculate the pixel counts for leaf area. Results: The correlation coefficients between the pixel count of leaf area and the growth period of sprouts were 0.91, 0.98, and 0.97 for broccoli, clover, and radish, respectively. Further, the correlation coefficients between the pixel count of leaf area and fresh weight were 0.90 for broccoli, 0.87 for clover, and 0.95 for radish. Conclusions: On the basis of these results, we suggest that the simple image acquisition system and processing algorithm can feasibly estimate the growth period and fresh weight of seed sprouts.

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“…Sprouts are grown from seeds placed in environmentally controlled, hydroponic conditions and incubated in warm, moist, nutrient-rich conditions, which are ideal environments for microbial growth. The seeds usually carry microbial loads comprised between 3 and 6 log CFU/g, including pseudomonads and enterobacteriaceae as main components (Andrews et al, 1982;Prokopowich and Blank, 1991;Robertson et al, 2002;Splittstoesser et al, 1983). The bacterial load increases rapidly during the sprouting process, reaching from 6 to 8 log CFU/g after two days in one study (Fu et al, 2001) and between 7.8 and 8.8 in another (Weiss et al, 2007).…”

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