Natalia Tsouggou, Aleksandra Slavko, Olympia Tsipidou, Anastasios Georgoulis, Svetoslav G Dimov, Jia Yin, Constantinos E Vorgias, John Kapolos, Marina Papadelli, Konstantinos Papadimitriou
Sfela is a white brined Greek cheese of protected designation of origin (PDO) produced in the Peloponnese region from ovine, caprine milk, or a mixture of the two. Despite the PDO status of Sfela, very few studies have addressed its properties, including its microbiology. For this reason, we decided to investigate the microbiome of two PDO industrial Sfela cheese samples along with two non-PDO variants, namely Sfela touloumotiri and Xerosfeli. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics analysis were used to identify the microbiome of these traditional cheeses...
March 27, 2024: Foods (Basel, Switzerland)