Your Next Burger Could Be Made With Microbes

Fermentation is a natural process that humans have been hacking for millennia. Now, scientists are customizing the process to revolutionize the future of food with alternative proteins. » Subscribe to Seeker! » Watch more Elements! » Visit our shop at » Sign Up for Seeker's Newsletter! When you hear ‘fermentation’, you may think of the spice of bubbly kimchi, the smell of rising bread, or the tang of a good beer. These techniques have been part of human life for millenia. But today, fermentation is being hacked for the food of the future. Those tiny microbes are helping us solve the global challenge of how to produce more and more food for more and more people…and we’re not just talking about stuff like bread. Like one of my favorite bacterial genuses, Lactobacillus, let’s break this down. When microorganisms like bacteria or fungi do fermentation,