Results of the pH measurement of the sampleswere shown in Fig. 1. At the beginning of the experiment(day 0), the pH of all samples was similar in the range of5.43-5.70. The pH in all five batches dropped rapidly to3.24-3.33 on day 3 of fermentation. However, on day 7,pH of the naturally fermented batch was increased signifi-cantly from 3.33 to 4.44, while in all starter culture-addedbatches the pH remained low (3.22-3.27 for high-inocu-lum and 3.40-3.44 for low-inoculum). At the end of thefermentation on day 12, both batches of the high-inoculumsamples had the lowest pH at 3.30-3.35, followed by thelow-inoculum batches (pH 3.65-3.81), while the naturallyfermented batch had the highest pH at 3.93 (Fig.1). TotalLAB counts of the samples from all fermentation batcheswere shown in Fig. 2. The initial LAB population innaturally fermented batch was the lowest at 5.58 logCFU/ml, followed by the low-inoculum batches at 5.75-5.89logCFU/ml. The high-inoculum batches had the highestnumber of LAB, at 6.11-6.16 logCFU/ml. The differencesin the initial LAB population reflected the number of LABstarter culture added to each batch. For naturally fermentedbatch, the LAB population increased to the maximum valueof 8.02 logCFU/ml on day 7 and then decreased to 6.95logCFU/ml at day 12. For the low-inoculum batches, theincreased in LAB population were highest on day 3 to anaverage of 7.57 logCFU/ml, then, slowly decreased to7.25 logCFU/ml at day 12. For the high-inoculum batches,in contrast to other batches, the increase in LAB popula-