A typical German sandwich with ham and cheese
| Microorganisms in
our food
When you are having a break and eating a sandwich, you probably
don't like to think about microbes. You are hoping that your meal is
free of germs. Who regards that bread is made with the help of
yeast, tiny microorganisms? If you have a particularly tasteful
bread, this might be prepared from sour dough that is formed by the
action of lactic acid bacteria. The cheese on your bread is ripened
by the action of propionibacteria. If you have sour cream butter on
your bread, this has got its flavour from a microbial fermentation,
too. Only the ham should be free of microbes - or could it be that
even this contains bacteria?
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Microbes in the Kitchen
