Soy sauce is a liquid condiment that is made from fermented soybeans with mold, wheat flour, brine water, bacteria, and yeast. Soy sauce fermentation includes two stages of fermentation which begins with koji fermentation and ends with moromi fermentation. Koji fermentation is a solid- state fermentation through the use of mold and it may last for 48 to 72 hours. Meanwhile, moromi fermentation …
Soy sauce is a popular condiment in Asian countries made from fermented soybeans. The production process of traditional soy sauce usually takes place in a non-sterile environment, causing spontaneous fermentation by indigenous microorganisms. One of the commonly found and reported species in soybean-based fermented food was Bacillus subtilis. Although Bacillus is generally recognized as saf…
Back slopping is referred to as the small inoculation of a previous successful fermentation product to the raw material, as the starter culture. One example of the traditional fermented product that utilizes the back-slopping methods is dadih. As it is an artisanal product that is made using traditional methods that involve humans and is prone to contamination, such as Staphylococcus aureus…