Health promoting effects of Fermented Foods was the highlight at 2nd Forum on Fermented Foods in Malaga

Published: Feb 7, 2025 by FME Lab

(#DominoEU researchers participated significantly to this amazing conference organised by the COST Pimento. Paul Cotter, Orla O’Sullivan, Jekaterina Kansatseva, Bastien Renard, Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux, Luca Cocolin, Kelly Rantsiou and Tanja Kostic gave talks.

FME team was also very active in this conference, Stéphane gave a brief overview of DOMINO WP2 work on the health assessment of a long-term diet with milk kefir. He was also the chairman of a round table where researchers from EU projects of the Microbes4SustainableFood (M4SF) cluster were giving their opinion on questions from the audience of ~170 attendees.

Marie also presented the update of PIMENTO WG4 - Federating scientists and Fermented Food producers to boost innovation for society.

A special thanks to COST Pimento organisation committee and to Carmen María González Domenech from the University of Medicine for hosting the conference in Malaga.

Health promoting effects of Fermented Foods was the highlight at 2nd Forum on Fermented Foods in Malaga

Metagenomic driven isolation of poorly culturable species in food

A new article entitled “Metagenomic driven isolation of poorly culturable species in food” from Caroline and Pierre has been published in Food microbiology journal¹.

Kothe et al. *Metagenomic driven isolation of poorly culturable species in food. Food Microbiology. 2025 ↩

6th scientific meeting of ANR metasimfood project in Strasbourg

On Tuesday 7th of January, the 7 partners gathered for the second time in Illkirch (close to Strasbourg) and were hosted by Aérial. The meeting was focused on the main advances carried out on the fermented vegetables food model with exiting results confirming the hypothesis postulated earlier in the project. Also, the evening before the meeting, Aérial organized a specific visit of the largest Sauerkraut producer in France, at a small village 30 km south of Strasbourg.