Microbes in Fermentation: Guardians or Threats to Food Safety?

Fermentation plays a pivotal role in food preservation, with fermentative microbes enhancing food safety and stability. However, improper conditions can introduce risks. This perspective examines the dual role of microbes (the benefits of fermentative microbes and the risks posed under specific conditions) and explores emerging detection and risk assessment technologies, including NAMs and AI, for improving fermented food safety.

Global trends of purinergic receptors and depression: A bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2023.

Background: Depression significantly threatens human health. Purinergic receptors are reported to be associated with depression. However, there is no bibliometric research in this field have been published.

Cultivated meat microbiological safety considerations and practices.

Cultivated meat, produced using cell culture technology, is an alternative to conventional meat production that avoids the risks from enteric pathogens associated with animal slaughter and processing. Cultivated meat therefore has significant theoretical microbiological safety advantages, though limited information is available to validate this. This review discusses sources and vectors of microbial contamination throughout cultivated meat production, introduces industry survey data to evaluate current industry practices for monitoring and mitigating these hazards, and highlights future research needs.

Food circular economy and safety considerations in waste management of urban manufacturing side streams.

In food circular economy, the utilization of food manufacturing side streams (FMSS) offers significant potential instead of being discarded. However, reincorporating FMSS into the food value chain raises food safety concerns due to potential food hazards. This perspective explores food safety risks associated with circular management of FMSS by using a 'Quad-Modal hazard dynamic' approach with case studies.

Nano and Technological Frontiers as a Sustainable Platform for Postharvest Preservation of Berry Fruits.

Berries are highly perishable and susceptible to spoilage, resulting in significant food and economic losses. The use of chemicals in traditional postharvest protection techniques can harm both human health and the environment. Consequently, there is an increasing interest in creating environmentally friendly solutions for postharvest protection.

Variations of nonvolatile taste components of mushrooms with different operating conditions and parameters from farm to fork.

Mushroom is a sustainable food option and a meat substitute which yet needs some strategies to enhance sensory attributes. Especially, their taste characteristics (nonvolatile taste components: soluble sugars, organic acids, free amino acids, and 5'-nucleotides) can vary significantly due to operating conditions and parameters during different stages from farm to fork. This review is aimed to provide an overall view of the determined effects of operating conditions and parameters for mushroom taste attributes, suggestions for future research from lacking variables, and some recommendations for improving the taste perception of mushrooms.

Combined Pulsed Electric Field and Microwave-Assisted Extraction as a Green Method for the Recovery of Antioxidant Compounds with Electroactive Potential from Coffee Agro-Waste.

Coffee agro-waste is a potential source of polyphenols with antioxidant activity and application in the food and cosmetic trades. The usage of these byproducts persists as a challenge in the industrial landscape due to their high content of purported toxic substances hindering management. This study presents a green extractive process using pulsed electric field (PEF) and microwave assisted extraction (MAE) to recover polyphenols from coffee parchment and two varieties of pulp, posing quick processing times and the use of water as the only solvent.

Recent Advances in Prodigiosin as a Bioactive Compound in Nanocomposite Applications.

Bionanocomposites based on natural bioactive entities have gained importance due to their abundance; renewable and environmentally benign nature; and outstanding properties with applied perspective. Additionally, their formulation with biological molecules with antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anticancer activities has been produced nowadays. The present review details the state of the art and the importance of this pyrrolic compound produced by microorganisms, with interest towards , including production strategies at a laboratory level and scale-up to bioreactors.

Biotechnological advances for improving natural pigment production: a state-of-the-art review.

In current years, natural pigments are facing a fast-growing global market due to the increase of people's awareness of health and the discovery of novel pharmacological effects of various natural pigments, e.g., carotenoids, flavonoids, and curcuminoids.

Clinically relevant materials & applications inspired by food technologies.

Food science and technology have a fundamental and considerable overlap with medicine, and many clinically important applications were borne out of translational food science research. Globally, the food industry - through various food processing technologies - generates huge quantities of agro-waste and food processing byproducts that retain a significant biochemical potential for upcycling into important medical applications. This review explores some distinct clinical applications that are fabricable from food-based biopolymers and substances, often originating from food manufacturing side streams.

Upcycling of brewers' spent grains via solid-state fermentation for the production of protein hydrolysates with antioxidant and techno-functional properties.

Brewers' spent grains (BSG) were fermented with and up to 15% of original protein was hydrolysed. Fermented BSG was then subjected to an ethanolic-alkali extraction and isolated fractions contained 61-66% protein. An evaluation of functional properties suggested that fermented extracts presented superior emulsifying abilities (15-34 m/g of activity and 16-42 min of stability), foaming properties (16-30% capacity and 7-14% stability), and water/oil binding capacities (0.

Fermentation for future food systems: Precision fermentation can complement the scope and applications of traditional fermentation.

Modern biotechnology holds great potential for expanding the scope of fermentation to create novel foods and improve the sustainability of food production.

A metabolomics approach to evaluate post-fermentation enhancement of daidzein and genistein in a green okara extract.

Background: Okara is a major agri-industrial by-product of the tofu and soymilk industries. Employing food-wastes as substrates for the green production of natural functional compounds is a recent trend that addresses the dual concepts of sustainable production and a zero-waste ecosystem.

Results: Extracts of unfermented okara and okara fermented with Rhizopus oligosporus were obtained using ethanol as extraction solvent, coupled with ultrasound sonication for enhanced extraction.

Bioactive peptides from food fermentation: A comprehensive review of their sources, bioactivities, applications, and future development.

Bioactive peptides (BPs) are specific protein fragments that exert various beneficial effects on human bodies and ultimately influence health, depending on their structural properties and amino acid composition and sequences. By offering promising solutions to solve diverse health issues, the production, characterization, and applications of food-derived BPs have drawn great interest in the current literature and are of particular interest to the food and pharmaceutical industries. The microbial fermentation of protein from various sources is indubitably a novel way to produce BPs with numerous beneficial health effects.

Functional Attributes and Anticancer Potentialities of Chico () and Jiotilla () Fruits Extract.

Mexico has a great diversity of cacti, however, many of their fruits have not been studied in greater depth. Several bioactive compounds available in cacti juices extract have demonstrated nutraceutical properties. Two cactus species are interesting for their biologically active pigments, which are chico ( ()) and jiotilla ( ()).

In Vitro Evaluation of Enriched Brewers' Spent Grains Using Bacillus subtilis WX-17 as Potential Functional Food Ingredients.

Brewers' spent grains (BSGs) are nutritious food processing by-products generated in the brewing industry. In this study, in vitro digestion-fermentation was employed to examine fermented BSG using Bacillus subtilis WX-17 as functional food ingredients. Insoluble fibers in BSG were converted into soluble fibers after fermentation, giving an increase from 6.

Technology innovations for food security in Singapore: A case study of future food systems for an increasingly natural resource-scarce world.

Background: Food security is becoming an increasingly important global issue. Anthropogenic factors such as rapid urbanization and industrialization have strained finite resources like land and water. Therefore, against the impending threat of food security, the world can no longer rely on traditional methods to meet its needs.

Effects of submerged liquid fermentation of WX-17 using okara as sole nutrient source on the composition of a potential probiotic beverage.

This work aims to produce a functional probiotic beverage using okara as the sole nutrient source. Hence, okara was fermented with WX-17 in submerged liquid fermentation and the supernatant was tested. Metabolomic analysis showed that the nutritional profile of the beverage was enhanced after fermentation.

Potential novel nutritional beverage using submerged fermentation with WX-17 on brewers' spent grains.

Food processing generates side streams that are not fully utilized and typically treated as waste materials. One of such food by-product, brewers' spent grains (BSG) are disposed in huge quantities from the beer industry annually. Submerged fermentation of BSG using WX-17, without supplementary components, is herein employed.

Overall survival prediction of non-small cell lung cancer by integrating microarray and clinical data with deep learning.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most common lung cancers worldwide. Accurate prognostic stratification of NSCLC can become an important clinical reference when designing therapeutic strategies for cancer patients. With this clinical application in mind, we developed a deep neural network (DNN) combining heterogeneous data sources of gene expression and clinical data to accurately predict the overall survival of NSCLC patients.

A preparation of β-glucans and anthocyanins (LoGiCarb™) lowers the digestibility and glycemic index of white rice.

The effect of a proprietary blend of β-glucan, anthocyanins and resistant dextrin (LoGICarb™) on the (1) digestibility and (2) glycemic response of humans to white rice, were carried out. The amounts of glucose released, rapidly digestible starch, and predicted glycemic index of white rice were significantly reduced, with addition of LoGICarb™. The mean glycemic index (GI) value of white rice, were also reduced from 72 to 55.

Microbial extraction of chitin from seafood waste using sugars derived from fruit waste-stream.

Chitin and chitosan are natural amino polysaccharides that have exceptional biocompatibility in a wide range of applications such as drug delivery carriers, antibacterial agents and food stabilizers. However, conventional chemical extraction methods of chitin from marine waste are costly and hazardous to the environment. Here we report a study where shrimp waste was co-fermented with Lactobacillus plantarum subsp.

Characterization and in Vitro Bioactivity of Green Extract from Fermented Soybean Waste.

Extracts were extricated from raw okara and okara fermented with using a clean, green protocol; water was used as the extraction solvent and coupled with ultrasound assistance for enhanced extraction. In vitro anti-oxidant analyses for antioxidant potential and capacity, superoxide scavenging activity, and nitric oxide scavenging activity validated that fermented okara yielded superior bioactive performance compared to raw okara. Fermented okara extracts showed no toxicity to erythrocytes and successfully prevented induced haemolysis.

Eco-friendly and biodegradable cellulose hydrogels produced from low cost okara: towards non-toxic flexible electronics.

With increasing resource shortage and environmental pollution, it is preferable to utilize materials which are sustainable and biodegradable. Side-streams products generated from the food processing industry is one potential avenue that can be used in a wide range of applications. In this study, the food by-product okara was effectively reused for the extraction of cellulose.