Roles Of Microbes In Food Industry

INTRODUCTION Microbes are important in the industries. Our industries uses microbes to assist in the manufacturing of useful products or to dispose waste product. Microbes gives a lot of benefit in our industries. For examples, food industries, medicine industries, agriculture and mining. The history of industrial microbiology have five phases. Firstly, Phase I up to 1900 Alcohol fermentation period. Secondly, Phase II in year 1900-1940 was Antibiotic period. Then. Phase III 1940-1964 was Single cell protein period, Phase IV 1964-1979 was Metabolite production period, and Phase V 1979 onward Biotechnology period. In food industries, we used microbes in creating the enzyme for food. Enzymes are

APPLICATION OF MICROBE IN INDUSTRY/INDUSTRIES WITH EXAMPLES The largest usage of microbes in industries are in the Food Industry. We need food in our life to make living and continue living. For food industries, microbes play the important role as it can increase the population from the demanding of food for human. The microbes helps in distributing into farmland, or as an addictive to seedling soil, or we can says as improving the harvest. It gives nutrient for the harvest to grow healthy and increasing in number. So, we can complete the demand of food required by the population. For example, Tapai. Tapai is a sweet or sour alcoholic paste and can be used directly as a food or in traditional recipes. Tapai is a mixture of Chlamydomucor oryzae and Endomycopsis fibuliger had good fermentation characteristics. Usually, Tapai are made up of carbohydrate sources. We can get the carbohydrate source from cassava, white rice or glutinous rice. The fermentation process that we used in producing Tapai helps in growing the non pathogenic microbes needed. The one who introduced this is Louis Pasteur for a phenomenon of bubbling. The fermentation process performed by moulds Aspergillus oryzae, Rhizopus oryzae, Amylomyces rouxii or Mucor species, and yeasts including Saccharomycopsis fibuliger, Endomycopsis burtonii and others. Yeast are needed as it is an enzyme and also act as a nutrient to help in the growth of the microbes. Enzymes carried out a specific

Since there are pathogenic and non pathogenic microbes, we should be more carefully in handling it. Some of the pathogenic microbes can give us disease where it can lead to fatal. But, from the non pathogenic microbes itself, it can helps us in various industry. Sometimes, from the non pathogenic microbes it can helps in finding the cure for the pathogenic microbes. Microbes are important for human and also all living things as it play the role of cycling back every ‘ waste’. It might cause us disease but, it do also give benefits. Without it, there might be no nitrogen fixing and waste could not be break down into small particles. So, microbes and living things works as a symbiosis. Even in humans body, microbes play important rule to break down the food