Carob as a carbon source for fermentation technology

Finding new carbon and nitrogen sources is important for lab-scale research to provide cheaper substrates for biotechnological processes to reduce costs. In this sense, carob is one of the important sources for any kind of fermentation processes with its rich nutritional ingredients. Carob pod extracts have been used in many lab-scale studies to produce ethanol, citric acid, lactic acid, mannanase, microbial cell protein, and other value-added products by yeasts, algae or fungi in recent years. In this review, we tried that organize all researches about carob pod extract fermentation to prove the suitability of carob pod for biotechnological processes.