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Sourdough under the microscope reveals microbes cultivated over generations

  • Written by Daniel Veghte, Senior Research Associate Engineer, The Ohio State University
Sourdough under the microscope reveals microbes cultivated over generationsMicrobes make a home among the starch grains of your sourdough starter.Daniel Veghte, CC BY-SA

Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years. The components of creating a sourdough starter are very simple – flour and water. Mixing them produces a live culture where...

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