【外刊英语精读】最古老奶酪 | dairy fermentation origin - 加尔讲英语

Study  casts new light on origins of dairy fermentation研究新发现揭示奶制品发酵起源A  groundbreaking study conducted by Chinese scientists has shed new light on the origins of dairy fermentation practices dating back thousands of years. The study, published in the journal Cell, offers a glimpse into the lives of Bronze Age people and their innovative food production techniques. The samples of kefir cheese, found in a cemetery in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, are around 3,500 years old and could be the most ancient variety of cheese known to humans.中国科学家的开创性研究揭示了数千年前奶制品发酵实践的起源。该研究发表于《细胞》，让读者得以一窥青铜时代人类生活及其创新食品生产技术。开菲尔奶酪样本出土于新疆维吾尔自治区墓地，距今约3500年，可能是人类已知最古老的奶酪品种。The  research team, led by Fu Qiaomei, director of the Molecular Paleontology Laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, extracted high-quality genomes of Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens, a bacterial species used for fermentation, from the cheese samples found inside mummies at the Xiaohe ce...