date:May 23, 2012
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has isolated four different species of live lactic acid bacteria from two bottles of beer found in a shipwreck dating from the 1840s on the Finnish archipelago.
Researchers said that the bacteria had interesting potential applications for use in food and beverages dues to their high stress tolerance and, therefore, potential stability in food and non-food matrices.
The four species of live lactic acid bacteria isolated were Pediococcus damnosus, L