Probiotic Potential of Lactic Acid Starter Cultures Isolated from a Traditional Fermented Sorghum-Millet Beverage

Table 4

Auto-aggregation and hydrophobicity of lactic acid bacteria.

Lactic acid bacteria	% hydrophobicity		% auto-aggregation
	Xylene	Toluene	5 h	24 h
Lactobacillus rhamnosus yoba 2012	80.3^a ± 3.2	66.3^a ± 2.8	100.0^a ± 0.0	100.0^a ± 0.0
Lactobacillus plantarum MNC 21	15.9^b ± 1.5	12.6^b ± 1.7	100.0^a ± 0.0	100.0^a ± 0.0
Lactococcus lactis MNC 24	5.5^c ± 2.7	5.9^d ± 2.4	75.8^c ± 2.9	100.0^a ± 0.0
Weissella confusa MNC 20	4.3^d ± 0.5	8.4^c ± 2.7	79.9^d ± 2.0	100.0^a ± 0.0

Values are means ± standard deviations of three independent determinations. Mean values in the same column with similar superscripts are not significantly different ().