Fermented foods as experimentally tractable microbial ecosystems.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Microbial communities of fermented foods have provided humans with tools for preservation and flavor development for thousands of years. These simple, reproducible, accessible, culturable, and easy-to-manipulate systems also provide opportunities for dissecting the mechanisms of microbial community formation. Fermented foods can be valuable models for processes in less tractable microbiota.
Medical subject headings
- Ecosystem
- Fermentation
- Food Microbiology