It isn’t just humans that have a taste for alcohol. Chimpanzees will search around in the jungle and hunt for fermented fruit ...

Research reveals the interesting behavior of chimpanzees and how they bond by sharing fermented, alcoholic fruit.

In a nutshell Wild chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau regularly share fermented fruits containing alcohol (0.01-0.61%), offering ...

Microbes designed to make edible proteins in space could significantly bolster the wider precision fermentation industry, paving the way for more environmentally-friendly food. Scientists from ...

A group of chimps have been filmed sharing alcoholic breadfruit, in the first example of wild primates having a booze-up on camera (well, sort of). Researchers got hold of the fruit they were ...

Introduction: The traditional fermentation process for bamboo shoots is long, complex, and yields a product with a non-uniform flavor. To address these issues, we determined the effects of using ...

Plant-based colorants such as beets and carrots still dominate conversations about natural alternatives to synthetic food dyes. However, natural pigments produced by microbes in fermentation tanks can ...

“We need to find out more about whether they deliberately seek out ethanolic fruits and how they metabolise it, but this behaviour could be the early evolutionary stages of ‘feasting’.

Such are the yields of fermentation, here coming from the rice vinegar in the pickles, but present throughout the Japanese pantry in shoyu, miso, mirin and sake, all made by inoculating rice or ...