Examining the Effect of Freezing Temperatures on the Survival Rate of Micro-Encapsulated Probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus LA5 Using the Flash Freeze-Drying (FFD) Strategy

Elsa Acosta-Piantini*, Maria Carmen Villarán, Ángel Martínez, José Ignacio Lombraña

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This work proposes a novel drying method suitable for probiotic bacteria, called flash freeze-drying (FFD), which consists of a cyclic variation in pressure (up-down) in a very short time and is applied during primary drying. The effects of three FFD temperatures (−25 °C, −15 °C, and −3 °C) on the bacterial survival and water activity of Lactobacillus acidophilus LA5 (LA), previously microencapsulated with calcium alginate and chitosan, were evaluated. The total process time was 900 min, which is 68.75% less than the usual freeze-drying (FD) time of 2880 min. After FFD, LA treated at −25 °C reached a cell viability of 89.94%, which is 2.74% higher than that obtained by FD, as well as a water activity of 0.0522, which is 55% significantly lower than that observed using FD. Likewise, this freezing temperature showed 64.72% cell viability at the end of storage (28 days/20 °C/34% relative humidity). With the experimental data, a useful mathematical model was developed to obtain the optimal FFD operating parameters to achieve the target water content in the final drying.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo506
PublicaciónMicroorganisms
Volumen12
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublicada - mar 2024

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