scholarly journals Safety and quality of bacterially fermented functional foods and beverages: a mini review

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tolulope Joshua Ashaolu

Abstract Bacteria have been employed widely in the food and beverage industry, with evolving dimensions in recent years. Proteases derived from lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are useful in the production of fermented functional beverages and are of particular use in conditioning their shelf life, nutritional content, flavour, and texture quality, thus making fermented foods and beverages functional and therapeutic. This review focuses on bacteria, especially protease-producing LAB used in food processing, and their usefulness in the production of functional foods and beverages. A case study of oat beverages was briefly explored due to its popularity. The safety and quality importance of the food products were also considered with a few recommendations.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Mochammad Masud ◽  
Mohammad Effendi ◽  
Miftachul Huda

Eucheuma cottonii seaweed contains carrageenan, which is used as an ingredient for the food and beverage industry. This must be processed first by an alkaline process and then dried to become chips known as alkaline treated cotton chips (ATC) products. The process of drying seaweed was done using an oven dryer using heat energy that can be adjusted to the drying time, temperature and number of products so that the quality of the dried products of seaweed products that have been processed into Alkaline Treated Cotton Seaweed (ATS) to be used as an advanced product becomes ATC (Alkali Treated Cotton Chips). The results of this study aim to find out the optimal value of temperature, drying time and the amount of ATS to get output from ATC in accordance with SNI 8170: 2015 standard and received by the customer. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the minimum significant drying process for moisture content was 12.10% at level 2, 1 kg weight, level 2 temperature 70 oC with level 3 drying time 400 minutes. Whereas the maximum gel strength is 910 gram / cm2 at level 1, weight 0.5 kg, level 2 temperature 70 oC with level 2 drying time 320 minutes.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glisina Dwinoor Rembulan

<p><em>In 2017 the number of franchise turnover in Indonesia reached 200 trillion </em><em>rupiah </em><em>with a composition of 65% contributed by foreign franchises and 35% came from local franchises. The food and beverage industry sector also contributes 80 percent of the total franchise turnover in Indonesia. Based on data from the Ministry of Tourism of Indonesia, restaurant businesses with medium and large scale increased in number even though based on the percentage of growth slowed down. From 2008-2011 the restaurant business experienced an increase of 600 units of restaurants. This explains that restaurant businesses, especially food and beverages, have a high appeal to people's consumption choices. Various factors of attraction and weakness of a franchise restaurant is not uncommon to be a discussion and recommendation of the community either directly or online media. This study aims to measure whether influenza is influenced by the quality of food, the quality of restaurant officers, and the appearance of the restaurant. This study used multiple regression and SPSS 24 to analyze the data. The result of this research explains that partially </em><em>word of mouth</em><em> is not influenced by the quality of food, the quality of the restaurant officer, and the appearance of the restaurant. Simultaneously, these factors have an effect on the word of mouth. The use and socialization of the voting system and comments on the factors in this study can help the restaurant franchise business in the formation and dissemination of public spirits.</em></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> Restaurant, franchise, word of mouth</em><em></em></p><p> </p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Ounane Boumediene ◽  
Yahiaoui Nour El Houda

The aim of this study is to highlight the most important issues of social responsibility for companies in the Algerian beverage sector. In Algeria, despite growing concerns of consumers and health advocates in effects associated with high levels of consumption of beverages on public health, along with other issues such as; the quality of drinks, percentage of sugar, ingredients, packaging. Studies dealing with social responsibility in this sector are rather scarce. Our results show that applying CSR principles stills not very common in this field and too much efforts are needed in order to legitimize the activity of the enterprises, likewise an increasing acceptance of social responsibility principles so that to establish the rules of ethical practices in the future. Finally, some urgent measures, such as installing a good information system as well as a set of laws and standards that regulates CSR, and reducing the effect of the informal sector should be undertaken by the Algerian government.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinzia Battistella ◽  
Lucia Cicero ◽  
Nadia Preghenella

Purpose The purpose of this study is to extend the knowledge on sustainable organisational learning (OL) in sustainable companies. Design/methodology/approach Sustainability is examined from an OL perspective and was based on Edward’s integral cycle of learning. An in-depth analysis of the literature was carried out, and a list of OL characteristics, such as openness to new ideas and participative policymaking, were compiled. To identify which OL characteristics are used for sustainability, a multiple-case study was designed for sustainable companies operating in the food and beverage industry. Findings This study found a wide variety of sustainable practices, such as experimentation and information-sharing systems, related to learning processes, and learning leadership appears to be the least developed dimension. It was also found that sustainable companies learn through social rather than reflective learning, in relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and by concrete actions to implement environmental and social impacts. Originality/value This study is one of a few that explore sustainable OL and contributes to categorising OL characteristics that sustainable companies use to facilitate and support sustainability in the mid–long term.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
Liliana Dewi ◽  
Quinta Marvellyn

Soes Legends is a business that is engaged in the food and beverage industry that offers dried chocolate fill products. Based on the initial survey conducted by the author, the factors that dominate consumers in buying Soes Legends products are consumer perceptions and the quality of Soes products. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of consumer perceptions and product quality on the decision to purchase Soes Legends products. The research method used is quantitative research with the sampling method is purposive sampling. The population in this study were all Soes Legends consumers who had repeated as many as 125 people with a sample of 96 people. The technique of collecting data uses a questionnaire with a Likert scale. The results of the questionnaire datawere analyzed to test factors and test variables using SPSS version 23. The results of this study indicate that consumer perceptions and product quality influence the decision to purchase Soes Legends products.


Author(s):  
Rupesh Sinha ◽  
Varsha Ganatra ◽  
Priya Pandey ◽  
Deepaa Darshanie Lim A/P Arumugan ◽  
Daisy Mui Hung Kee ◽  
...  

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of Covid-19 on business performance of Starbucks. Plenty research of the impact of Covid-19 on the world economy has been done, but this research will focus more on the food and beverage industry, especially one of the famous brands called Starbucks. Qualitative and quantitative research methods such as online research and questionnaires were carried out to ensure the evaluation of the research is fresh, valid and reliable. It is assumed that the impact of Covid-19 has influence the Starbucks financially, economically and socially, which includes the behaviour of consumers towards the company. However, Starbucks was able to remain optimistic and position itself well to overcome the pandemic crisis.


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