A research on the evaluation of microbiological quality of plain ice-cream which is produced in accordance with Kahramanmaraş style produced in Kahramanmaraş

In this research, it was investigated chemical, physical and microbiological quality of Maraş type plain ice-creams, sold in retail markets of Kahramanmaraş. In the ice-cream samples, total aerobic mesophilic bacteria, coliform bacteria, E. coli, lipolytic bacteria, psycrophile bacteria, Salmonella, yeast-mould were determined. The average counts of aerobic mesophilic bacteria, coliform bacteria, E. coli, lipolytic bacteria, yeast-mould, 6.3x10- 1.4x105 cfu/g, 3- 740 MPN/g, 3 - 13 MPN/g, 1.2x102 - 8.7x103 cfu/g, 10-6.3x103 cfu/g, 0,6x10- 2.3x102 cfu/g respectively. Salmonella spp. and psycrophile bacteria were not isolated in any of ice-cream samples. The dry matter, fat contents of samples conformed the ice-cream standards. In conclusion according to the microbiological analyses of the ice-creams specimen in general were conform to the microbiological criteria report. The result of this study indicated that ice-creams with vanilla which made with Maraş style sold in Kahramanmaraş markets were not in same quality level. The quality of product changes by manufactures technique.