New method uses lactic acid bacteria to produce vitamin B2
Many vitamins are produced in chemical factories, often synthetically, but researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have succeeded in ...
Tag: Fermentation
How plant-based, Mediterranean, and Western diets affect gut microbiota and disease
Current scientific literature consistently highlights the superiority of plant-based and Mediterranean diets over Western diets in promoting gut health and ...
EU-funded MASTER project develops first comprehensive database of food metagenomes
The first comprehensive database of food metagenomes has been developed by the EU-funded MASTER project. The associated scientific paper 'Unexplored ...
Unraveling the microbial dynamics of spontaneous fermentation
Shibazuke is a traditional Japanese eggplant pickle produced by the process of fermentation using lactic acid bacteria (LAB). LAB which ...
Bowel movement frequency is linked to long-term health, study suggests
Everybody poops, but not every day. New research by the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) suggests bowel movement frequency is linked ...
Fermented foods may have fueled human brain growth, new evolutionary theory proposes
In a review published in the journal Communications Biology, researchers in the United States of America described the potential role ...
Ingenza and Phibro Ethanol accelerate the green fuel transition
Ingenza and Phibro Ethanol – a division of Phibro Animal Health Corporation – have joined forces to engineer a novel yeast strain that ...
Mediterranean diet with a dairy twist shows promise in lowering heart disease risk
A recent Nutrients journal study evaluated how the combination of Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) supplement and dairy foods affected the gut microbiome in ...
Escherichia coli ST2797 as a novel emerging extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli
In a recent study published in the Microbiology Spectrum Journal, researchers suggest that Escherichia coli ST2797 could potentially be a ...
How two structurally different lemon pectins modulate the gut microbiota
A diet containing fruits and vegetables contains pectins (plant polysaccharides). Pectin cannot be metabolized by mammalian cells in the gastrointestinal ...
