Abstract
The Ceylon Journal of Science is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in March, June, September and December. It is aimed at publishing high quality research articles on topics related to different disciplines in Science. The journal accepts original research articles, book reviews, reviews and mini-reviews, short communications, opinions, research notes, and commentaries and notes. The Journal has its own website https://site.pdn.ac.lk/cjs/. The journal strictly adheres to publication ethics as emphasized by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is indexed in Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Google Scholar and Zoological Records. According to the Google Scholar;H5-Index: 12H5-Median: 15According to the Exaly (1970 – 2021);Impact Factor: 0.6 (top 19%)Extended IF: 0.6 (top 19%)H-Index: 8 (top 28%)Citations/paper: 1.42
Highlights
The ever increasing world population requires an increase in food supply
The Single Cell Protein (SCP) refers to dead, dry microbial cells which includes proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, minerals and vitamins but most part of cell comprising proteins (Ware, 1977)
It is known that organisms such as Candida utilis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Penicillium janthinellum and Candida tropicalis can produce SCP (Nasseri et al, 2011)
Summary
The ever increasing world population requires an increase in food supply. The food protein shortage worldwide has become a concern at present. SCP has been produced from different microorganisms like algae, fungi, yeast and bacteria These microorganisms utilize inexpensive carbon sources for the growth and production of bio protein. SCP generally has high nutritive value due to higher content of proteins, vitamins and essential amino acids (Galvez et al, 1990). It may have some nutritive issues like high nucleic acid content that may lead to slower digestion and some allergic reactions to humans (Anupama et al, 2000 and Ugbogu et al, 2016). The most important one being that SCP should contain high protein content with essential amino acids It should contain less than 2 % of nucleic acids and the production is economical. It is known that organisms such as Candida utilis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Penicillium janthinellum and Candida tropicalis can produce SCP (Nasseri et al, 2011)
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