Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each subtle cultural or personal twist to a fermented dish is felt by your body's microbial community. microgen/iStock via Getty ...

The ancient art of fermentation is America’s latest food trend, celebrated at five-star restaurants, prepared in home kitchens and touted for healing everything from obesity to cancer. Are the health ...

Why bacteria might be the secret for ultimate health. Let’s get this out of the way: put simply, fermentation is the process of transforming food by bacteria, yeasts or other microorganisms. Wait!

Industry executives at Future Food-Tech 2026 say precision fermentation’s growth is constrained by costly facilities, weak US infrastructure and limited government coordination, risking ...

Chances are, you’ve been sleeping on fermented foods for most of your life. Here in the US, they’re “not a natural part of our diet like in a lot of other populations,” Amy Burkhart, MD, RD, a ...

Researchers have found that bacteria isolated from kimchi can bind to plastic particles in the gut and carry them out of the body.

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WASHINGTON — Efforts to use fermentation in the production of alternative proteins are showing signs of maturation, according to a state-of-the-industry report from The Good Food Institute (GFI) ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Fermented foods are ...

In a review published in the journal Communications Biology, researchers in the United States of America described the potential role and benefits of externally fermented foods in triggering the ...

Though tiny plastic fragments have been known to accumulate in the brain, liver and placenta, they are especially disruptive ...