Leuconostoc mesenteroides so as to produce bacteriocin. Removalof color up to ∼27% of this residue was performed. As far as thepotential of yeast strains to reduce the color and to decrease thephenolic content in OMW-based media is concerned, confusionexists in the literature indicating that in several cases, phenolremoval from yeasts appears to be a bioprocess that could becharacterized as “strain-dependent”. For instance, the same strainused in the present study, S. cerevisiae MAK-1, was utilized