Table 1. Some traditional fermented food and implicated lactic acid bacteria

S/N	Fermented food	Region/country consumed	Isolated lactic acid bacteria
1.	Ogi	Nigeria/West Africa	Lactobacillus fermentumLactobacilus plantarum
2.	Abreh	Sudan	Lactobacilus plantarum
3.	Uji	Kenya/East Africa	Leuconostoc mesenteroides
4.	Kenkey	Ghana	Lactobacillus spp.
5.	Mahewu	South Africa	Lactobacilus bulgaricus
6.	Mawe	Benin/West Africa	Pedicoccus pentosaceus
7.	Zabadi	Egypt/North Africa	Lactobacilus bulgaricus
8.	Kawal	Egypt	Lactobacilus plantarum
9.	Kaffir	North Africa	Lactobacilus delbrueckii
10.	Burukutu	West Africa	Lactobacilus spp.
11.	Malawa	Zambia, Uganda	Lactobacilus spp.
12.	Enjera	Ethiopia	Leuconostoc mesenteroides
13.	Palm wine	West Africa	Lactobacilus plantarumLeuconostoc mesenteroides
14.	Gari	Africa	Lactobacilus plantarum
15.	Fufu	West Africa	Lactobacilus brevis
16.	Nono	West Africa	Lactobacillus acidophilusLactococcus cremoris

Oyewole, 1997; Franz et al., 2014.