TABLE 3.

Amounts of fermentation products formed per mole of consumed glucose during growth on 0.5% glucose

L. lactis strain	ox	Nisin (ng/ml)	Amt of product (mol mol of glucose−1)
			Lactate	Formate	Acetate	Ethanol	Acetoin	2,3-Butanediol	Pyruvate	Mannitol	C recovery
NZ9000			1.71								0.86
NZ9000/pNZmt1D			1.74								0.87
NZ9000/pNZmt1D		1	1.74								0.87
NZ9010			0.13	1.1	0.15	1.1	0.28	0.07			1.04
NZ9010	+a		0.02		0.09	0.12	0.57	0.03	0.26		0.85
NZ9010/pNZmt1D			0.06	1.0	0.37	0.77	0.17	0.16		0.006	0.94
NZ9010/pNZmt1D		1	0.08	0.93	0.15	0.87	0.24	0.15		0.011	0.95
NZ9010/pNZmt1D	+		0.02		0.22		0.58		0.16		0.78
NZ9010/pNZmt1D	+	1	0.02		0.21		0.60		0.15		0.79
HWA217/pNZ9530			1.86	0.12	0.01						0.94
HWA217/pNZ9530/pNZmt1D			1.83		0.01					0.005	0.93
HWA217/pNZ9530/pNZmt1D		1	1.87		0.01					0.008	0.95

^aox +, oxic growth.