Production of Single Cell Protein from Orange Peels Using Aspergillus niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Abstract

The bioconversion of fruit wastes into certain valuable products like single cell protein (SCP) has the ability to solve the worldwide food protein deficiency by obtaining an economical product for food and feed. However using wastes as substrate for the production of high nutritious product may also alleviate environmental pollutant up to some extent. In the light of this, an attempt was made in this study by selecting Aspergillus niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of SCP. The orange peels were used as sole carbon source for preparation of fermentation media on which the two selected fungal strains were grown. A. niger biomass was produced by solid state fermentation while the S. cerevisiae biomass was obtained by submerged fermentation. The present research work can helps in SCP production from inexpensive and cheap agro waste material.