A method for producing a food or a precursor of the same, including the steps: (a) providing a mash or a wort or last runnings as a first nutrient medium; and (b) treatment of the first nutrient medium with lactic acid bacteria of the species Lactobacillus rossiae (DSM 15814.sup.T) or with lactic acid bacteria of at least two kinds of species including Lactobacillus rossiae (DSM 15814.sup.T). Furthermore, a corresponding food and corresponding uses are claimed.

Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a methanol metabolic pathway that can enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of methanol. Such reducing equivalents can be used to increase the product yield of organic compounds produced by the microbial organism, such as adipate, 6-aminocaproate, hexamethylenediamine or caprolactam. Also provided herein are methods for using such an organism to produce adipate, 6-aminocaproate, hexamethylenediamine or caprolactam.

The microorganism strain Pediococcus acidilactici TAK 589 CoccobEst is a new antimicrobial and antioxidant probiotic, CoccobEst inhibits the growth of the enteropathogens L. monocytogenes, E. coli, S. enteritidis, S. typhimurium, S. sonnei, S. aureus, E. faecalis and C. sakazakii, but does not inhibit lactobacilli of natural intestinal microbiota. The strain's antimicrobial properties are enhanced by periplasmic peptidoglycan hydrolases with proteolytic activity. CoccobEst is used as a zootechnieai feed additive to prevent bacterial infections in the gastrointestinal tract of farm animals and pets and to prevent and reduce diarrhea. CoccobEst has highly active antioxidant defense system, increasing the redox activity of glutathione and reducing oxidative stress in cells. Therefore, CoccobEst is used as a food supplement or functional food for humans to prevent bacterial infections of the gastrointestinal tract and to prevent and reduce oxidative stress. In addition, CoccobEst is used as a starter culture in fermentation of vegetables.

Methods of production of edible filamentous fungal biomat formulations are provided as standalone protein sources and/or protein ingredients in foodstuffs as well as a one-time use or repeated use self-contained biofilm-biomat reactor comprising a container with at least one compartment and placed within the compartment(s), a feedstock, a fungal inoculum, a gas-permeable membrane, and optionally a liquid nutrient medium.

A method for producing fermented shiitake mushroom sauce according to an embodiment includes adding lactose and sucrose to shiitake mushroom concentrate followed by inoculation of Pediococcus pentosaceus strain or Lactobacillus acidophilus strain and fermentation to prepare lactic acid bacteria fermented product of shiitake mushroom, and mixing the lactic acid bacteria fermented product of shiitake mushroom prepared above with hot pepper extract, garlic extract, onion extract, and shiitake mushroom block, water, salt, lemongrass, and coriander, and the present invention also relates to fermented shiitake mushroom sauce produced by the aforementioned method.

Methods of production of edible filamentous fungal biomat formulations are provided as standalone protein sources and/or protein ingredients in foodstuffs as well as a one-time use or repeated use self-contained biofilm-biomat reactor comprising a container with at least one compartment and placed within the compartment(s), a feedstock, a fungal inoculum, a gas-permeable membrane, and optionally a liquid nutrient medium.

Provided herein is a non-naturally occurring microbial organism having a methanol metabolic pathway that can enhance the availability of reducing equivalents in the presence of methanol. Such reducing equivalents can be used to increase the product yield of organic compounds produced by the microbial organism, such as adipate, 6-aminocaproate, hexamethylenediamine or caprolactam. Also provided herein are methods for using such an organism to produce adipate, 6-aminocaproate, hexamethylenediamine or caprolactam.

Methods of production of edible filamentous fungal biomat formulations are provided as standalone protein sources and/or protein ingredients in foodstuffs as well as a one-time use or repeated use self-contained biofilm-biomat reactor comprising a container with at least one compartment and placed within the compartment(s), a feedstock, a fungal inoculum, a gas-permeable membrane, and optionally a liquid nutrient medium.

Methods of production of edible filamentous fungal biomat formulations are provided as standalone protein sources and/or protein ingredients in foodstuffs as well as a one-time use or repeated use self-contained biofilm-biomat reactor comprising a container with at least one compartment and placed within the compartment(s), a feedstock, a fungal inoculum, a gas-permeable membrane, and optionally a liquid nutrient medium.

Methods of production of edible filamentous fungal biomat formulations are provided as standalone protein sources and/or protein ingredients in foodstuffs as well as a one-time use or repeated use self-contained biofilm-biomat reactor comprising a container with at least one compartment and placed within the compartment(s), a feedstock, a fungal inoculum, a gas-permeable membrane, and optionally a liquid nutrient medium.