Résumé:
Lactic acid bacteria are widely used in the food industry. The 27 strains used in our study are of the genus Lactobacillus sp that produce P-galactosidase.
The objective of this work is to study the transformation of lactose by Lactobacillus sp. in a culture medium based on acidic whey and sterilized.
The results obtained show that there is a large variation in lactose degradation between the strains studied.
These results allow us to conclude that among the 27 strains tested, strains N13 and Bbv2 represent a strong enzymatic activity in P-galactosidase, since they degrade lactose in a very large amount, compared to other strains including N28, which had the lower enzymatic activity.