Research Article

Effect of the Application of Cold Plasma Energy on the Inactivation of Microorganisms, Proteins, and Lipids Deterioration in Adobera Cheese

Table 1

Mean death constant (± SD) and time of death in seconds (± SD) of the different bacterial strains, in slopes 1 and 2.

StrainsPending 1Pending 2

Died timeKdDKdD
E. coli9.84 ± 0.340.23 ± 0.0080.87 ± 0.182.71 ± 0.56
Salmonella9.93 ± 0.710.23 ± 0.011.35 ± 0.311.78 ± 0.44
S. aureus9.93 ± 0.710.23 ± 0.011.22 ± 0.472.17 ± 0.98
Bacteria mix11.32 ± 0.10 0.2 ± 0.0010.35 ± 0.056.60 ± 0.98

SD: standard deviation; Statistically significant difference with each individual bacteria, ANOVA; , Kd: death constant, D: death time in minutes.