Highlights•Computational models are a useful tool to understand microbial metabolism.•
Challenges are complex media and interactions between metabolically diverse
strains.•Models have addressed robustness, biotransformation and food
enhancement.•Future challenge is to move to community modelling.Microbes are key to
creating safe, edible and enriched fermented food products. This is largely achieved by their
metabolism. Thus, the ability to understand the wiring of the complete cellular metabolism is …