Cocoa beans fermented for 6 days in the absence or presence of nisin
or nisin + lysozyme were fully fermented as judged by the cut test, with
all 30 beans showing a full brown color. The shell weights of dried beans
from these fermentations were similar (p N 0.05). The percentage shell
weights were, respectively, in the absence and presence of nisin, 14.92%
and 15.32% for the 2011 beans and 11.62% and 11.38% for the 2012
beans (2500 ppm Nisaplin + lysozyme).