Evaluation Of Bacteria Isolated In Bakery Environments In Umuahia, Abia State.

ABSTRACT

Bakery product are the important staple foods in most country and cultures. Bakery products arc a valuable source of nutrients in our diet providing us with most of our food calories and approximately half of our food requirements. The nutrients in bakery products are carbohydrate. proteins. lipids, vitamin and mineral. Bakery industry in Umuahia. Abia state is the largest of food industry with the annual turnover of millions of sales. A bakery environment is a building where bread, pastries, and cakes are baked, or the shop where they are sold. Bread and biscuit form the major baked foods accounting for over 80 per cent of octal baker products produced in the country. Bakery product 011CC considered as sick man's diet have now become essential for items of the vast majority of population. Bakery products are considered as a source of carbohydrate because starch is the main chemical constituent. 13akcr\ products are subjected to spoilage problems. These includes physical, chemical and microbial spoilage.Saranrajet iiI. (2011).