Aly Farag El Sheikha

TL;DR: The role of pickles in filing the gap in food security, the safety aspect of traditionalPickles and biofortication as an interesting technique to improve the quality of traditional pickles are tackled.

TL;DR: Bioprocessing of sweet potato offers novel opportunities to commercialize this crop by developing a number of functional foods and beverages such as sour starch, lacto-pickle, lacta-juice, soy sauce, acidophilus milk, sweet potato curd and yogurt, and alcoholic drinks through either solid state or submerged fermentation.

TL;DR: A molecular technique employing 26S rDNA profiles generated by PCR–DGGE was used to detect the variation in yeast community structures of three species of Physalis fruit from four Egyptian regions, providing a new traceability tool which provides fruit products with a unique biological bar code and makes it possible to trace back the fruits to their original location.

TL;DR: DGGE band sequencing analysis showed that species belonging to the genera Streptococcus may predominate in the traditional Minas cheese, suggesting that specific band profiles from traditional cheeses from each region may be used as a biological bar code to discriminate their origins.

TL;DR: This review provides answers with a critical vision to many questions for understanding the role of molecular techniques to discover the secrets of fermented foods such as how to evaluate the traditional fermented foods.