Abstract :
There is a significance importance on functional products from food to gut to enrich the indigenous flora to protect the host system. A relative assessment of functional metabolite producing lactic flora from feces of Irulas and Urban community were done. One twenty three from Irulas and seventy seven from urban, EPS producing lactic flora were isolated by appearance of different phenotype (i.e. mucoid, slimy and watery). Further, the strains were subjected for selenite to Seo reducing capacity. Among these, 112 strain from Irulas and 43 from urban were appeared as red colour colonies. Further, 58 isolates from Irulas and 5 from urban showed positive for the production of Gamma amino butyric acid (GABA). Overall screening, Irula tribals possessed high lactic flora consortium with multiple functional traits in the intestine. Further, the
Irula tribal isolates could be screened for probiotic attributes and can be used as functional microflora.
Keyword :
EPS-lactic flora, Irula tribes, GABA, Seo strain