Mannitol was not found in the pulp or nibs of beans fermented in
2011. For the 2012 beans, a low level (1.3 mg/g) was produced in the
pulp fraction during fermentation without nisin + lysozyme but was
not found in the fermentation treated with these bacterial inhibitors
(data not shown). Its presence correlated with the growth of
L. fermentum which occurred in the 2012 control fermentations, but
was inhibited by nisin + lysozyme. Mannitol was not detected in any
nib fractions