Table 3.

Bile tolerance of L. fermentum MA strains

	Control group		Bile concentrations
			0.3%		1%
	0 h	4 h	0 h	4 h	0 h	4 h
Spectrophotometric
MA-7	0.048 ± 0.004	0.793 ± 0.025	0.038 ± 0.004	0.106 ± 0.001	0.038 ± 0.004	0.204 ± 0.007
MA-8	0.58 ± 0.000	0.869 ± 0.007	0.035 ± 0.004	0.055 ± 0.001	0.018 ± 0.004	0.191 ± 0.006
log CFU/mL
MA-7	7.920 ± 0.071	8.215 ± 0.276	8.100 ± 0.283	7.975 ± 0.771	4.590 ± 0.127	4.585 ± 0.436
MA-8	7.600 ± 0.156	9.610 ± 0.170	8.030 ± 0.156	8.535 ± 0.417	4.685 ± 0.134	4.625 ± 0.007

Mean (± standard deviation) of results performed from twice replicates spectrophotometric experiments. Survival colonies of strains in media prepared at different pH values were calculated as log₁₀ CFU/mL