Abstract
Bacterial cellulose is a new type of microbial synthetic material. It has excellent properties compared with plant cellulose and thus it has application potential on many fields including food, biomedical material, paper manufacturing. In this study, yeast lees (tan-colored dead yeast particles that collect at the bottom of a fermentation vessel) were employed as low-cost substrates to produce bacterial cellulose using Glucoacetobacter xylinum BC-11. Results indicated that yeast lees performed well for the growth of G. xylinum BC-11 and the bacterial cellulose production. The fermentation conditions were also optimized: the proportion of lees and water is 4: 5, fluid volume is 75 milliliter, initial pH is 6.0. The study showed the possibility of using the fruit processing by-products to produce high value-added bacterial cellulose and made bacterial cellulose production more cost-effective.
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