Prospects of Artificial Kefir Grains Prepared by Cheese and Encapsulated Vectors to Mimic Natural Kefir Grains

Table 1

Chemical properties of natural kefir grains and different vectors (g/kg).

	Natural kefir grains	Encapsulated vector	Cheese vector
Moisture	761.23 ± 8.01	982.7 ± 15.2	589.9 ± 7.9
Polysaccharide	122 ± 17	0	8.2 ± 2.4
Protein	69.9 ± 4.8	1.2 ± 0.2	260.2 ± 18.8

The data are average values of triplicate ± standard deviation. Mean values on the same line are significantly different ().