Enriquecimento nutricional de bagaço de uva através do crescimento de Aspergillus niger

Abstract

The wine sector is responsible by 1% ofthe Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Rio Grande do Sul, being the state responsible by 90% of the brazilian production of wines, which market is growing. In the wine industry, around 25% of the processed amount of grape turn's into waste, mainly represented by grape skins, seeds and stems. This work had the objective of analyzing the nutritional characteristics of Vitis sp stem's and its improvement with Aspergillus niger T0005/007-2. It was checked that the solid state fermentation of those wastes using the filamentous fungus A. niger increases the crude protein content of grape waste, besides the caloric value risement, of carbohydrates, total dietary fiber, lipids and moisture. The increment of the carbohydrates 20 days afier the exposition to the fungus A. niger is a favorable facto r to the usage for animal food, because in this way, the formulation it can be added to a swine's feed complementation. The implementation of fungus A. niger, into stem's Vitis sp wastes seems promissing to the nutritional value agregation over wastes of grape production that are already being used into the feed of some animals. Based on these results, the grape's stem bioconversion using the solid state fermentation method could be an alternative at animal's feeding (sic).