Bread, alcohol, dill pickles or cheese might come to mind when you think of foods that ferment, but one food that doesn't usually make the list? Chocolate. Now, however, scientists and producers are ...

Sourdough took the culinary world by storm a few years back, but this bubbly starter represents far more than a passing kitchen fad. Beyond the rustic crust and chewy center lies a nutritional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wine has been made by humans for about 7,000 years, and experts agree that until quite recently it may not have tasted very good.

Humans have taken advantage of the metabolism in a tiny fungus called yeast to create beer and wine from grains and fruits. What are the biological mechanisms behind this alcohol production? Aa Aa Aa ...

Fungi have quietly shaped the trajectory of human civilization, from the diets of Paleolithic foragers to the beer in modern glasses and the experimental psychiatric drugs now in clinical trials. The ...

In Michigan’s remote Keweenaw Peninsula, Emily Geiger observes a science lab table full of beer-fermenting starter yeast. But this is no ordinary beer yeast—the culture was gathered from the shores of ...

Heat plots of metabolites and flavor compounds in coconut cider fermented with yeast K1-V1116 (left) and coconut cider fermented with Yeast EC-1118 (right) at different fermentation times. FAME = ...

An incredibly old way of making drugs is now an incredible new way to make drugs. Scientists have genetically reengineered a yeast fermentation process in order to produce chemotherapeutics instead of ...

Fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir, yogurt, and miso differ in texture, taste, base ingredients, and probiotic ...

Meat-free proteins are a hot topic. In a 2019 McKinsey report, the consultancy published findings from an analysis of consumer online search queries: the most popular food and beverage product search ...