Co-Culture Probiotic Fermentation of Protein-Enriched Cereal Medium (.

is a fermented cereal beverage which is produced by co-culture fermentation of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. In addition to the nutritional properties of cereals used in the production, it is also suitable to be gaining functional properties by fermenting with probiotic microorganisms. In this study, protein content of probiotic was increased by the addition of gluten, zein and chickpea flour and the volatile compounds formed during co-culture fermentation of the cereal medium with and were determined. It was determined that chickpea added provided the highest cell counts of (7.92 logs CFU/g), (7.32 log CFU/g) and (3.26 log CFU/g) during storage. With the addition of gluten, the protein content of the sample was enriched four times more when compared with control . During fermentation and storage, a total of 36 different compounds were identified with the major compounds as 9,12-octadecadienoic acid, 9-octadecenoic acid, hexadecanoic acid and hexadecanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-1-(hydroxymethyl)ethyl ester. The concentration of volatile compounds generally decreased during storage of samples. According to Principle Cluster Analysis results, enriched protein samples had similar projections due to their fatty acid contents and the main difference was shown in the control sample. The results of this study indicate that chickpea, single or mixture with cereals, can be a good substrate for probiotic microorganism production for acceptance as probiotic foods.