Effects of Nutrients in Substrates of Different Grains on Aflatoxin B₁ Production by Aspergillus flavus

Table 3

Effect of soluble sugars on AFB₁ production.

Aflatoxin	Concentration of soluble sugars (%)
	0.5	1.0	3.0	6.0
Fructose	46.92 ± 11.30	7.54 ± 0.83	5.41 ± 0.56	1137.56 ± 308.79
Glucose	28.77 ± 3.33	8.92 ± 0.77	5664.33 ± 570.70	35860.57 ± 7028.16
Sucrose	4.63 ± 1.26	4.28 ± 0.60	39782.61 ± 5896.87	4471.97 ± 442.68
Maltose	2.84 ± 0.85	2.34 ± 0.33	23687.29 ± 5777.01	74848.68 ± 8422.06
Raffinose	5.70 ± 1.13	2.76 ± 0.65	208.27 ± 24.28	5.50 ± 1.21
Stachyose	17.02 ± 1.22	10.08 ± 1.39	5426.44 ± 292.49	120.61 ± 16.55

Mean values with different letters for each soluble sugar are significantly different ().
Aflatoxin B₁ values are the average of five replications with standard deviation in ng/30 mL.