Enzyme production from different fruit and vegetable wast using lactic acid fermentation

摘要

Laboratory experiment conducted with the objective of utilizing fruit and vegetable wastes and by-products viz., mango stone, citrus and mixed fruit peels, mosambi peel, banana pseudo-stem cuttings and cauliflower leaves, left over in the open in thefruit and vegetable mandies and processing industries or thrown in rivers for enzyme production showed highest pectinase, cellulose and amylase activity of 0.7605, 021465 and 0.3174 U umol ml"1 min1 in mosambi peel on 7th day of Lactobacillus plantarum inculation and 05289 & 0.5218, 0.4543 & 0.4314 and 0.4424 & 0.3626 U m1 min"1 in the mango waste after 13 and 28 days of L. plantarum inoculation, respectively. The Lactobacillus counts were highest (>108) in animal feed from mixed fruit pomace and mangostone waste till 13 days of incubation.