4. Inventory of microbial species used in food fermentations
The “2002 IDF Inventory” listed 82 bacterial species and 31 species of yeast and molds whereas the present “Inventory of MFC” contains 195 bacterial species and 69 species of yeasts and molds. The overview of the distribution of species over the relevant taxonomic units is given in Table 1 for bacteria and Table 2 and Table 3 for fungi. We publish the complete current “Inventory of Microbial Food Cultures” as accompanying material to the present paper.