Microbial spoilage of various foods

Below is the list of microbial spoilage of meat, poultry, fish, egg, honey, confectionery, bakery. This list will help you in ASRB NET 2019 exam as at least 2 questions are asked every time related to spoilage of milk, meat, poultry, fish, egg, bakery, confectionery. The milk and milk product spoilage and spoilage microorganisms will be uploaded in the second post as soon as possible.

Food	Spoilage/contamination  type	microorganism
1.Bread	Bread Mold	Rhizopus stolonifer
	Moldy	Rhizopus, Penicillium species
	Pinky or reddish	Monilla sitophilla
	Chalky Bread	Endomycopsis fibuligera, Trichosporon variable
	Ropiness	Bacillus licheniformis Bacillus Subtillis
	Bloody bread or red bread	Serratia marcescens
	Red Crumb	Geotrichum aurantiacum
2. sugar products & syrups candy	Ropy	Enterobacter aerogenes
	Yeasty	Saccharomyces Zygosaccharomyces
	Honey Spoilage	Zygosaccharomyces richteri
	Pink	Micrococcus roseus
	Moldy	Aspergillus, Penicillium
	Salmonoellosis	salmonella
3. Fruits & Vegetables	Bacterial Soft rot	Rhizopus, Erwinia cartovora
	Grey mold rot	Botrytis
	Rhizopus soft rot	Rhizopus nigricans
	Black mold rot	Aspergillus niger
	Watery Soft rot	Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
	Pink Mold rot	Trichothecium roseum
	Souring	Saprophytic bacteria
	Blue mold rot	Penicillium digitatum
	Black rot	Alternaria, Physalospora
	Green mold rot	Cladosporium
	Anthracnose	Colletotrichum linedemuthianum
4.Pickles, Saurekraut	Film Yeasts & Pink Yeasts	Rhodotorula
	Black pickle	Bacillus nigricans
	Undesirable Odour in saurekraut	Padeococcus cerevisae
	Pickle Softening	Penicillium
	Pectolysis	Aeromonas
	Slimy Kraut	Lactobacillus cucumeris
	Bloats	Lactobacillus plantarum
5. Meats	Red Spot	Serratia marcescens
	Blue color	Pseudomonas syncyanea
	Earthy flavor	Actinomycetes
	Souring	Pseudomonas, Micrococcus, Bacillus
	Moldy	Aspergillus, Rhizopus, Penicillium
	Putrefaction and canned meat spoilage	Clostridium
	Green patches	Penicillium expansum
	Whiskers	Thamnidium
	Slimy	Leuconostoc
6. Fish	Discoloration	Pseudomonas
	Smoked fish spoilage	Molds
	Pink discoloration of salted fish	Helicobacterium, Helicococcus, Pseudomonas salineria
	Dun spoilage	Wallemia sebi
7. Egg	Green rot	Pseudomonas fluorescens
	Fungal red rot	Sporotrichum
	Black rot(opaque egg)	Proteus
	Red rot	Serratia marcescens
	Colorless rot	Pseudomonas, Alcaligenes
8. Poultry	Slime, Odour	Pseudomomas, Alcaligenes

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