Evaluation of brewers’ spent grain as a novel media for yeast growth

• Main Authors: Cooray, Sachindra T., Lee, Jaslyn Jie Lin, Chen, Wei Ning
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Brewers’ spent grain; Growth media
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85775; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43824
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Brewers’ spent grain (BSG) is a by-product generated from the beer manufacturing industry, which is extremely rich in protein and fiber. Here we use low cost BSG as the raw material for the production of a novel growth media, through a bioconversion process utilizing a food grade fungi to hydrolyze...