Process for making an acidic amylaceous fermented composition and for reducing the fermented milk and/or fruit content in foodstuffs

摘要

Fermented milk products and/or fruit material in foodstuffs can be either simultaneously or separately reduced by adding to said foodstuffs an acidic amylaceous fermented composition resulting from a process wherein a) a slurry of cereal flour and at least one additional non-cereal starch material is first subjected to gelatinization and further homogenized; b) inoculated with an acidifying strain or a mixture of acidifying strains selected from Lactobacillus species, Streptococcus thermophilus and Bifidobacterium species; c) then subjected to a fermentation over a period and at a temperature such as to afford a pH of about 3.5 to 4.2 of the fermented material; and d) finally stabilized. Composition useful therefor and foodstuffs containing same.