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Journal Article
To culture or not to culture: careful assessment of metabarcoding data is necessary when evaluating the microbiota of a modified-atmosphere-packaged vegetarian meat alternative throughout its shelf-life period
2022
Overview
Background
As the increased consumption of ready-to-eat meat alternatives is a fairly recent trend, little is known about the composition and dynamics of the microbiota present on such products. Such information is nonetheless valuable in view of spoilage and food safety prevention. Even though refrigeration and modified-atmosphere-packaging (MAP) can extend the shelf-life period, microbial spoilage can still occur in these products. In the present study, the microbiota of a vegetarian alternative to poultry-based charcuterie was investigated during storage, contrasting the use of a culture-dependent method to a culture-independent metagenetic method.
Results
The former revealed that lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were the most abundant microbial group, specifically at the end of the shelf-life period, whereby
Latilactobacillus sakei
was the most abundant species. Metabarcoding analysis, in contrast, revealed that DNA of
Xanthomonas
was most prominently present, which likely was an artifact due to the presence of xanthan gum as an ingredient, followed by
Streptococcus
and
Weissella
.
Conclusions
Taken together, these results indicated that
Lb. sakei
was likely the most prominent specific spoilage organisms (SSO) and, additionally, that the use of metagenetic analysis needs to be interpreted with care in this specific type of product. In order to improve the performance of metagenetics in food samples with a high DNA matrix but a low bacterial DNA load, selective depletion techniques for matrix DNA could be explored.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
Subject
/ Bacteria
/ Bacteria - growth & development
/ Bacteria - isolation & purification
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Control
/ DNA
/ DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic - methods
/ DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic - standards
/ DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic - statistics & numerical data
/ Food
/ Food Microbiology - standards
/ Food Storage - statistics & numerical data
/ Identification and classification
/ Meat
/ Meat Products - classification
/ Meat Products - microbiology
/ Methods
/ Microbiota (Symbiotic organisms)
/ Mycology
/ RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics
/ Safety and security measures
/ Spoilage
/ Virology
/ Xanthan
