The pH values of the kimchi and
kimchi-powder sausages ranged from 4.78 to 4.33 after the first two
days of fermentation, while that of the control was 4.82. At this
time, the pH values of the sausages amended with 10% and 15%
kimchi and of all kimchi-powder sausages were even lower than the
lowest pH value (4.65) of sausages reported by Junker, Porobic, Sieber,
Linhard, and Knauf (1993), who investigated the acidifying properties
of different combinations of starter cultures in fermenting salami.