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As the hydrolysis of mandarin orange peel with macerating enzyme (40°C, 24 h) produced 0.59 g g−1 reducing sugar per dry peel compared to 0.36 by acid-hydrolysis (15 min at 120°C with 0.8 N H2SO4), the production of single cell protein (SCP) from orange peel was studied mostly using enzymatically hydrolyzed orange peel.
When the enzymatically hydrolyzed peel media were used, the utilization efficiency of reducing sugars (%) and the growth yield from reducing sugars (g g−1) were: 63 and 0.51 for Saccharomyces cerevisiae; 56 and 0.48 for Candida utilis; 74 and 0.69 for Debaryomyces hansenii and 64 and 0.70 for Rhodotorula glutinis. SCP production from orange peel by D. hansenii and R. glutinis were further studied. Batch cultures for 24 h at 30°C using 100 g dried orange peel produced 45 g of dried cultivated peel (protein content, 33%) with D. hansenii and 34 g (protein content, 50%) with R. glutinis, and 38 g (protein content, 44%) with a mixture of both yeasts.
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Nishio, N., Nagai, S. Single cell protein production from mandarin orange peel. European J. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 11, 156–160 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00511254
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