Food & Nutrition

Arab Journal of Food & Nutrition
hoummos produced under hygienic conditions, while refrigeration had a profound
inhibitory effect on the flora of such hoummos. Refrigeration was less effective in
checking the growth of the flora of hoummos with high initial microbial load.
The APC of tehineh ranged between 3.6x10 2 /g and 1.1x10 4 /g, with an average of
2.9x10 3 /g, while LAB count ranged from 1.1x10 2 /g to 7.0x10 3 /g, with an average of
1.7x10 3 /g. The only LAB isolated was a group D Streptococcus. Yeast count in all
samples was