Reducing sugars content in the wort is very
important in fermentation since yeasts convert
them into alcohol and CO2
. The trend in depletion
of reducing sugars is shown in Table 1. There was a
general decrease in reducing sugars content during
fermentation. This trend has also been reported by
other investigators (Demuyakor and Ohta, 1993;
Villicana and Saldivar, 2004) in pito and similar
products such as sorghum beer and barley wort.
Inoculum types were not significantly different in their effect on decreasing the content of reducing
sugars. However, fermentation time had a significant
(p