Modern Food Processing

Raw foods such as fresh microgreens, garden vegetables, and fermented plant foods provide microbial inoculants that support microbiome diversity. The modern food supply effectively functions as a germ-free diet for humans due to pervasive…

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Raw foods such as fresh microgreens, garden vegetables, and fermented plant foods provide microbial inoculants that support microbiome diversity. The modern food supply effectively functions as a germ-free diet for humans due to pervasive pasteurization, irradiation, canning, and ultra-processing. Antibiotic residues in meat from livestock treated with antibiotics can disrupt the human gut microbiome and produce resistant microbial strains.