fermented

They'd ship something to the bioengineer, who would send back a fermented food, the first of which began as "the press-cake that's left when you make flaxseed oil," said Luzmore.

The irony is fermented food products, like sourdough, and those rife with fungi, such as blue cheese, have long reigned over the food scene in the U.S.

Kombucha — the beloved moldy, fermented drink that hit astronomical popularity in recent years but was first brewed millennia ago — is one such success story.

In the same way animal cells can be cultivated in a bioreactor and harvested to produce meat cell products – so cells extracted from coffee plants could be similarly grown, then fermented and roasted to produce a brew.

One simple strategy is focusing on the four F's of food: fiber, phytochemicals, unsaturated fats and fermented foods.