HEALTHFERM

HealthFerm is a European research project investigating innovative pulse and cereal-based food fermentations together with the health effects and consumer perception of novel fermented foods. Fermented foods have gained a reputation for being beneficial to health. However, with the exception of yoghurt and other cultured dairy products, little concrete evidence exists for the actual health benefits of fermented foods.

HealthFerm project performs several human intervention studies to better understand the interaction between food fermentation microbiomes, fermented grain-based foods and the human gut microbiome and how they support human health.

Citizen Science Zurich supports a community-science approach to collect diverse food fermentation microbiomes, that will be used to design innovative fermented plant-based foods with optimal health benefits.

Duration: 09.2022 – 08.2026