microorganism enzyme applied in food industry

Worked as a high efficient biocatalyst, enzyme preparation is widely used in food industry and food additive producing. In 1940s, microorganism enzyme industry got rapidly development and became the main source of enzyme producing with many advantages like great variety, fast growth, easy to purify and lower processing cost.

What’s microorganism enzyme？

Enzyme preparation is a kind of protein material extracted from organism like animal, plant and microorganism with enzyme characteristic, has main function on catalyzing chemical reaction in food processing and improves food processing method.

microorganism enzyme applied

Enzyme is widely used in food industry, such as processing field in starch, brewing, juicy, beverage, spices, oil and so on. α-amylase in baking food used to extract from barley malt and epiphyte leafs, after pass GRAS test in England by the year of 1955 and 1963, epiphyte amylase enzyme becomes the main addictive in bread baking. Adding α-amylase in flour will not only increase fermentation ratio and sugar contents on dough, decrease dough viscosity and improve cake’s tasty, appearance and quality, but also extend food fresh-keeping time.