Fermentation is one of the oldest methods of preserving foods. How does acid affect sausage and cheese? What role do microbes play in determining texture and flavor? We'll discuss the science behind ...

Startup New Culture is seeking to raise $2.8m to develop ‘real’ cheese with casein proteins made from microbial fermentation (instead of cow’s milk) that its founder claims can deliver taste, ...

Lab-grown dairy is the latest tech innovation in the food realm, no cows required. When plant-based dairy substitutes like almond milk and sunflower butter hit the shelves, some lives were forever ...

New Culture animal-free cheese used as a pizza topping. Credit: Facebook Precision fermentation has seemingly resolved the challenge of getting close to the stretch-and-melt characteristics lacking in ...

Scientists and gourmands alike have been fascinated by the recent discovery of a 3,600-year-old cheese sample from a tomb in what is now the Xinjiang Uygur region in northwestern China (Cell 2024, DOI ...

In 1931 German physician, physiologist and biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that cancerous cells—unlike most healthy human cells, which produce energy using ...

Two producers of precision fermentation-derived dairy – developing products within the same category – have decided to work together, rather than in strict competition with each other. German ...

Food fermentation is the process of creating food or changing the properties of food using microbes. Many cultures started fermenting foods to preserve them. For example, fermenting vegetables allowed ...

Plant-based dairy alternatives follow a similar product evolution. The first generation needs to look right, with no unpleasant flavours. Generation 2 must also perform like dairy: foaming like milk ...