Title
Commercially available non-saccharomyces yeasts for winemaking: Current market, advantages over saccharomyces, biocompatibility, and safety
Date Issued
01 September 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Publisher(s)
MDPI
Abstract
About 42 commercial products based on non-Saccharomyces yeasts are estimated as available on the market, being mostly pure cultures (79%), with a predominance of Torulaspora delbrueckii, Lachancea thermotolerans, and Metschnikowia pulcherrima. The others are multi-starter consortia that include non-Saccharomyces/Saccharomyces mixtures or only non-Saccharomyces species. Several commercial yeasts have shown adequate biocompatibility with S. cerevisiae in mixed fermentations, allowing an increased contribution of metabolites of oenological interest, such as glycerol, esters, higher alcohols, acids, thiols, and terpenes, among others, in addition to a lower production of acetic acid, volatile phenols, biogenic amines, or urea. Multi-starter inoculations are also reviewed here, which show adequate biocompatibility and synergy between species. In certain cases, the aromatic profile of wines based on grape varieties considered neutral is improved. In addition, several yeasts show the capacity as biocontrollers against contaminating microorganisms. The studies conducted to date demonstrate the potential of these yeasts to improve the properties of wine as an alternative and complement to the traditional S. cerevisiae.
Volume
7
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Tecnologías de bioprocesamiento, Biocatálisis, Fermentación
Alimentos y bebidas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85114688303
Source
Fermentation
ISSN of the container
23115637
Sponsor(s)
This research was funded by Universidad Privada del Norte (Peru), project UPN-20201003 “Non-Saccharomyces yeasts: potential applications at the industrial level.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus