Claim · model-written summary
US ground red pepper averaged 1,600 storage-fungal colonies per g.
- Taxon
- red pepper
Capsicum annuum var. annuume0 - Outcome
- colonies of storage fungi per ge0
- Value
- 1,600 colonies of storage fungi per ge0
- Setting
- United Statese0
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Verbatim
e0“Thirteen samples of ground red pepper from the United States yielded an average of 1,600 colonies of storage fungi per g”
Title
Microflora of Black and Red Pepper1
C. M. Christensen; H. A. Fanse; G. H. Nelson; et al. Applied Microbiology 1967. doi:10.1128/aem.15.3.622-626.1967
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Ground black pepper yielded an average of 39,000 fungal colonies per g, ranging from 1,700 to 310,000 per g.
- Observation Bacterial colonies in ground black pepper averaged 194,000,000 per g, ranging from 8,300,000 to 704,000,000 per g.
- Observation Fungi grew from nearly all cultured surface-disinfected whole peppercorns.
- Observation US ground red pepper yielded an equal number of other fungi.
- Observation Indian ground red pepper averaged 78,900 storage-fungal colonies per g.
- Observation Indian ground red pepper averaged 169,400 colonies of other fungi per g.
- Observation Aspergillus flavus occurred among fungi from black and red pepper.
- Observation A. ochraceus occurred among fungi from black and red pepper.
- Observation Some pepper-derived Aspergillus isolates grown on corn were rapidly lethal to rats or ducklings.
- Observation Aflatoxin B1 was isolated from corn on which A. flavus from black pepper grew.
- Observation Several bacterial genera and species were isolated from black pepper.
- Observation Neither Shigella nor Salmonella was cultured.