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Cheese: New insights into an age-old food:
The analysis provided new insights into the microorganisms found in cheese, the links between microorganisms and specific desirable and undesirable flavors and the arsenal of antimicrobials that starters and other cheese microorganisms produce to naturally preserve cheese. The study also provides an intriguing insight into the battle between phage (viruses that infect bacteria) and cheese microorganisms, and associated anti-phage countermeasures.
[...] Scientists have been studying these microorganisms and their activities since the 19th century and eventually began to try to better control the process in some instances through the conscious addition of specific microorganisms, known as "starters," to start the cheesemaking process. Studies have also focused on trying to identify and control the growth of other, undesirable, microorganisms that contribute to off-flavors or food poisoning as well as phage, which are viruses that can attack and kill starters.
[...] "This study has the potential to be of tremendous value to the cheese industry. A better understanding of the microbiology involved can lead to the better harnessing of microbes that can positively impact on flavor and other qualities. This could allow the most desirable qualities of artisanally-produced cheeses to be made available to even wider markets. It also has broader implications for the whole fermented food field where the same technologies can be employed in a similar way and scale," explains Professor Paul Cotter.
Journal Reference:
Aaron M. Walsh, Guerrino Macori, Kieran N. Kilcawley, et al. Meta-analysis of cheese microbiomes highlights contributions to multiple aspects of quality, Nature Food (DOI: 10.1038/s43016-020-0129-3)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday August 17 2020, @01:35PM (7 children)
There's a huge body of knowledge going back centuries around fermented foods - are they going to try to build on any of that, or just use their shiny new tools to rediscover the insights of the past?
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @01:41PM (1 child)
Well, this article is rather cheesy and short on details.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @03:42PM
Maybe we should be glad the article doesn't cut it?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @02:55PM (3 children)
Ye Olde Cheese Analysis 1243: Fyrst ye burne the wytch and take hyr cows. Under moonlyte must ye take the milk in a pail made of wood. No other shall be used lest the demons infect the mylk. Take the mylk and let it rest until the Rooster doth crow thrice afore the daylight. Cover the milk and issue the Lord's prayer while ye shake the pail vigorously. Let stand until the cow sits down on the fourth day. Add electrolytes.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 17 2020, @03:50PM (2 children)
In ancient times it was discovered that when "age old foods" started mutating into new life forms, it was time to clean out the refrigerator.
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday August 17 2020, @04:32PM (1 child)
In ancient times before 1900, probiotic colonization was used to preserve foods when ice wasn't available.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408365/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @04:45PM
Otherwise known as witchcraft, you fucking heretic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @06:14PM
Our local, medium-sized cheese factory seems to have things pretty well figured out. Went on a tour a few years ago when they had an open house. Place was spotlessly clean. Milk arrives by tank truck and is tested for various contamination before it is ever piped into the factory buildings. Once the young cheese is made into wheels, it goes into an aging room (some extra-sharp cheddar is aged up to 3 years). Most of the time the aging room is flooded with some gas that is poison to cheese molds, once a day the room is flushed out, the warning lights go off, and workers go in to turn the young cheese wheels over.
Years ago I stopped out in the summer when one of the second generation family members was making pioneer cheese in a big witches cauldron (iron pot), over an open fire. He was practicing for a county fair demo...
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @02:57PM (5 children)
> The analysis provided new insights into the micro
organismsplastics found in cheeseFTFY.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 17 2020, @03:47PM (1 child)
I resent that!
I love stopping by McDonald's for a sausage egg biscuit with gelatineous cheese-like substance!
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @04:46PM
Don't worry that's 100% plastic. You don't have to worry about the cheese being contaminated.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday August 18 2020, @02:13AM (2 children)
You are confusing cheese with velveeta.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 20 2020, @01:57AM (1 child)
Isn't it spelled "cheez"?
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday August 20 2020, @02:16AM
Only if it's whiz.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @04:05PM (2 children)
The summary is devoid of any "insight."
(Score: 1) by nostyle on Monday August 17 2020, @05:45PM (1 child)
Indeed, not much to see here. This looks like a must-publish-or-perish exercise.
"Meta-analysis": 50,000 foot view --- "of cheese microbiomes": critters living in cheese --- "contributions...to quality": affect taste, texture, shelf-life, ...etc.
Who knew?
I would be more interested in a Meta-Meta-analysis as to the wisdom of the eating of milk-based foods by an animal predominately adapted to survival on fruits, plants, nuts, grains and the occasional steak.
I am reminded of the story of the paleface, who, when first arriving in the Pacific Northwest, were repelled by the unfamiliar stench from the drying fish and the extraction of fish oil that the indigenous relied on to get through the winter, while the indigenous folk were repelled by the unfamiliar stench of the cheese preparation activities practiced by the paleface.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2020, @05:31AM
Bear in mind the selection pressure of thousands of years of consuming cow milk before you get too up your own ass about (c)The Paleo Diet.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Opportunist on Monday August 17 2020, @06:17PM (1 child)
There's no use overanalyzing spoiled milk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2020, @03:40AM
But there is use in crying over spilled milk
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @09:31PM
into ending cheese farts would be useful science.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2020, @05:38AM
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