Impact of protectants on the storage stability of freeze-dried probiotic .

The ability of rice protein supplemented with various prebiotics to protect probiotic TISTR 2075 upon freeze-drying and subsequent storage was determined. A combination of rice protein-fructooligosaccharide (RF) provided the best storage stability with the lowest specific rate of cell death () of 1.20 × 10 and 5.

Optimization of furfural production from hemicellulose extracted from delignified palm pressed fiber using a two-stage process.

This study aims to optimize the conditions for furfural production from hemicellulose extracted from delignified palm pressed fiber (dPPF) via two-stage process: acid hydrolysis followed by dehydration, using response surface methodology (RSM). The extracted hemicellulose contained 80.8% xylose.