Although distinct in origin, the curing periods of both cheeses studied were the same. In addition, 17 GABAproducing LAB strains of 31 colonies from cheese (Nomura, Kimoto, Someya, Furukawa, & Suzuki, 1998) and 23 of 1000 from poacai (Li et al., 2008) were found indicating the high occurrence of GABA-producing LAB in some fermented foods.