A study of microbial and nutritional properties of some pastry manufactured in the coastal region


Abstract in English

The objective of this research to study the chemical composition and microbial load for some types of pies by performing various chemical and microbial analysis of samples collected, from different parts of the Syrian coast which are famous for its production. This study showed a large variation in the chemical composition of samples by type of the pastry and place brought from, for example, the proportion of dry matter for peppers and chard pies collected from Banias was, 75.71% and 44.90%, respectively, and the percentage of dry matter was 73.88% and 76.18% and the proportion of protein was, 17.76% and 24 .88% for cheese pies collected from Tartous and Latakia 1, respectively. This study indicated that all the pies contain a high percentage of fat [the lowest in chard pies (17.64%) and the highest in cheese pies (38.12%)]. Furthermore a high percentage of sodium was found (the highest in cheese pies 15.31 mg / 100 g and lowest in pepper pies 7.82 mg / 100 g). The study also showed that these meals meet international standards in terms of content of lead, cadmium, Nevertheless they are poor in fiber content except for chard pies which were the most balanced in terms of components, making it the best type of pies in nutritional aspect. Finally, the results showed that the microbial load was too high, as the total census of bacteria was higher than 105 and the total census of yeasts and fungi was higher than 102. In addition, all pies are not conformed to the Syrian legislation. The study also showed absence of E.coli and St. aureus of all samples.

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