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Fermentation Innovation: Top Trends: Sign Up For Updates
20, 2018
At eatCultured, we're passionate about fermentation innovation. In this post we explore some of the
top trends in the field today, including what makes our own innovation so special.
To address these problems and further our understanding of fermentation, a new generation of
innovators, including eatCultured's own
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and techniques. Their goal is not only standardize the fermentation process but also evolve our
understanding of the core principles and processes of fermentation itself.
Healthier Food
Today's fermentation innovators are changing the food we eat either by crafting entirely new
fermented foods or adding fermentation to typically unfermented foods.
While coffee beans can undergo a certain amount of natural fermentation after
they've been harvested, smart fermentation adds additional fermentation benefits
to every bean.
The process entails studying the role of individual microbes and the health and flavor benefits they
can bring to coffee. The fermentation process is then carefully controlled to ensure the maximum
level of health benefits in every batch.
The result is a whole bean coffee that's consistently easier to digest, provides more sustained energy
and has a more mellow flavor - all thanks to natural microbes and modern technology.
Probiotic Chips
Fermentation's positive impact on digestion and the microbiome is being applied to common food
products in new ways too.
For example, sauerkraut makers are now branching out into shelf-stable products like probiotic
chips. At the other end of the scale, large CPG companies are adding probiotics to their regular
chips. The addition of probiotic cultures can add additional flavors to chips as well as supporting
healthy digestion.
Fruit juice, either in the form of smoothies or pressed fruit juice, can now be found with added
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coconut water companies, it seems every fruit company
is looking to boost the health profile of their products with added cultures.
Several biotech startups now produce healthy and more sustainable cooking oils by growing algae in
commercial fermenters.
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The fermentation technology provides a commercially-viable way to cultivate algae at scale indoors
without the need for land, livestock or chemicals required to grow other crops.
Made by Microbes
By cultivating and supporting the work of yeasts and other microorganisms using commercial
fermentation technology, these startups are making everything from dairy-free milk and
vegan gelatin to meatless meat, lab-grown leather and clothing.
Aside from presenting ethical alternatives for vegans and vegetarians, these new products are being
engineered to offer the same flavor, nutrition or raw material as traditional options without the need
for factory farming, chemicals or other unwanted bi-products.
All that's required is a thorough understanding of biotechnology and ways to scale the technology to
reduce the costs of producing these alternatives. The rest is up to the consumer to determine the
popularity - and commercial viability - of these new products.
Afineur, the innovating team behind eatCultured, is working hard to address this problem through a
few form of cultured protein derived from spent grain. Other innovators are making beverages
from upcycled grain or so-called "ugly" produceSEARCH
that would otherwise be thrown away.
In this area too, fermentation innovation is not only setting a new food trend based on promoting
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healthier foods, it's also paving the way for a new movement designed to re-engineer the food
system itself for the better.
We're excited to be part of that movement and hope you'll join us on a journey to bring positive
change to our food system today.
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