Table 3.

The utilization of different carbon sources by E. faecium SFM1 and E. faecium SFM2.

	E. faecium SFM1	E. faecium SFM2
Control	0.79 ± 0.02i	0.77 ± 0.02i
Glucose	1.44 ± 0.02d	1.67 ± 0.02b
Fructose	1.21 ± 0.03f	1.40 ± 0.00d
Sucrose	1.58 ± 0.00c	1.77 ± 0.00a
Lactose	1.41 ± 0.06d	1.69 ± 0.02b
Galactose	1.06 ± 0.00g	1.34 ± 0.05e
GOS	1.36 ± 0.02e	1.35 ± 0.01e
Stevioside	0.98 ± 0.01h	0.96 ± 0.03h

Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation of three independent experiments (n = 3).

Different lowercase superscript letters indicated statistically differences at P < 0.05.