Abstract:In order to achieve the purpose of the risk pre-warning about the deterioration occurring in the finished sauce with microbial contamination, 4 kinds of physicochemical indexes were compared and analyzed, including the content of reducing sugar, total acid, ammoniacal nitrogen and diacetyl. The results showed that the finished sauce deteriorated because of the contamination of salt-tolerance bacillus, and its physicochemical indexes changed significantly. The reducing sugar content decreased drastically and the content of total acid, ammoniacal nitrogen and diacetyl increased obviously. It can be judged that the sauce is deteriorated while the decreasing amplitude of reducing sugar content reach to 60%, and the increasing amplitude of total acid content reach to 32%, ammoniacal nitrogen content 6.0% and diacetyl content 20.4%.