Microbial foods for improving human and planetary health

LJ Jahn, VM Rekdal, MOA Sommer - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The current food production system is negatively impacting planetary and human health. A
transition to a sustainable and fair food system is urgently needed. Microorganisms are likely …

[HTML][HTML] Fermented foods: Harnessing their potential to modulate the microbiota-gut-brain axis for mental health

R Balasubramanian, E Schneider, E Gunnigle… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, whole food supplementation strategies have been leveraged to
target mental health. In addition, there has been increasing attention on the ability of gut …

Factors influencing terrestriality in primates of the Americas and Madagascar

TM Eppley, S Hoeks, CA Chapman… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Among mammals, the order Primates is exceptional in having a high taxonomic richness in
which the taxa are arboreal, semiterrestrial, or terrestrial. Although habitual terrestriality is …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the primate glutamate taste sensor from a nucleotide sensor

Y Toda, T Hayakawa, A Itoigawa, Y Kurihara… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Taste perception plays an essential role in food selection. Umami (savory) tastes are sensed
by a taste receptor complex, T1R1/T1R3, that detects proteinogenic amino acids. 1 High …

Fermented foods, their microbiome and its potential in boosting human health

V Valentino, R Magliulo, D Farsi… - Microbial …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fermented foods (FFs) are part of the cultural heritage of several populations, and their
production dates back 8000 years. Over the last~ 150 years, the microbial consortia of many …

Human evolution and dietary ethanol

R Dudley, A Maro - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
The “drunken monkey” hypothesis posits that attraction to ethanol derives from an
evolutionary linkage among the sugars of ripe fruit, associated alcoholic fermentation by …

Taste-shaping-natures: Making novel miso with charismatic microbes and new Nordic fermenters in Copenhagen

J Evans, J Lorimer - Current Anthropology, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Taste shapes evolution, microbes make tasty food, and humans and microbes have been
shaping each other for a long while. Yet anthropological accounts of evolution and …

The future is fermented: microbial biodiversity of fermented foods is a critical resource for food innovation and human health

R Hernández-Velázquez, L Flörl, A Lavrinienko… - Trends in Food Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Fermented foods and beverages have been a key component of the human diet
for thousands of years, and play an important nutritional, cultural, and economic role in most …

Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating increased pathogen pressure and the use of pharmacological plants in Homo

EH Hagen, AD Blackwell, AD Lightner… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The human lineage transitioned to a more carnivorous niche 2.6 mya and evolved a large
body size and slower life history, which likely increased zoonotic pathogen pressure …

Great apes reach momentary altered mental states by spinning

AR Lameira, M Perlman - Primates, 2023 - Springer
Among animals, humans stand out in their consummate propensity to self-induce altered
states of mind. Archaeology, history and ethnography show these activities have taken place …