Lactic acid bacteria are critical to the dairy, food processing, and nutrition industries. Used as probiotics, flavor compounds, and starter cultures for fermented foods such as yogurt, the bacteria ...

Hint: It's key to those big, buttery Chardonnays. The techniques used to produce a wine is made can offer enormous insight into its taste. Key terms like “whole cluster,” “carbonic maceration,” and ...

If you love a buttery, creamy texture in wine you can give credit to a mere bacterium named leuconostoc, an expert at conducting malolactic fermentation. Wine drinkers tend to love wines that go ...

Jungbunzlauer may be the next to invest in lactic acid and derivatives in North America. The Swiss firm already makes citric acid by fermentation of corn in Port Colborne, Ontario, and says that ...