Scientists Uncover World’s Oldest Cheese and Origin of Kefir in 3,600-year-old Chinese Mummies
The Tarim mummies have been hiding a culinary secret for millennia.
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Novel probiotics discovered in traditional Brazilian cheeses
Researchers want to take cheese making to the next level — and they've got the biotech for it.
Oldest cheese found in 3,200-year-old Egyptian tomb hides a dangerous secret
An ancient cheese, over millennia old, reveals early evidence of brucellosis.
Why is cheddar so delicious? Science now has the answer — and it’s all in the microbes
The nutty, creamy flavor of cheddar is due to a delicate balance of bacteria
Who invented cheese? You can thank the Indus Valley Civilization
The Indus Valley Civilization was the earliest known producer of dairy and dairy products, according to new research.
A 6,000-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts
A lucky encounter between a fruit fly and a pail of milk around 5,500 years ago set the stage for ...
Doctors petition FDA to add breast cancer warning on cheese
12,000 doctors have signed the petition.
Lab-grown dairy hints at the future of food
Technology is driving the industry toward providing alternatives to conventionally produced food products.
Scientists played music to aging cheese to change its taste. Hip-hop worked the best
It's a cheesy topic, but the results were tasty. I mean, interesting.
What Wikipedia can’t tell you about making cheese
DIY for the holidays!
340-Year-Old Cheese Recovered From Shipwreck: ‘We think it’s cheese’
It's perhaps the stinkiest cheese in the world right now, after molding at the bottom of a shipwreck for centuries.
This is how one French power plant produces electricity using cheese
The town of Albertville in southeastern France has begun using cheese to generate electricity. Their power plant, build in the ...
Is Dairy Addiction Real? Here’s what science says
Dairy Addiction is one idea toted not only as a notion, but as a fact by a significant number of ...
Why Swiss cheese has holes (it’s not the mice)
A team at Agroscope, a Swiss agricultural research center, reports what lends the Swiss cheese its uncanny hole-ridden appearance: tiny ...
