✨ Season’s Greetings from COFALEC! ✨As the year comes to a close, we send our warmest wishes for joyful winter celebrations and a bright, prosperous year 2025 🌟 A heartfelt thank you to everyone we’ve worked with in 2024—our members, partners, and the curious followers of the fascinating world of yeast.Your […]
Yeast cells are now being repurposed as tiny tools for enzyme research. By attaching enzymes to the surface of yeast cells, researchers can turn them into efficient, reusable platforms for studying enzyme behaviour and testing new applications, such as drug discovery or industrial biocatalysis. A study published in FEBS Open Bio demonstrates […]
🌍 The world population is projected to approach 10 billion by 2050, intensifying pressure on our natural resources and challenging current dietary trends. One alarming estimate: maintaining today’s meat-intensive diets could require converting over 1.3 billion additional hectares of land to agriculture. This would be a huge strain on ecosystems and biodiversity. 🚀 Alternative […]
Researchers have found that spent brewer’s yeast, a byproduct of beer production, can be used to capture metals like aluminum, copper, and zinc from industrial waste. The yeast’s cell walls naturally bind to these metals, making it an effective, low-cost solution for waste treatment. By adjusting the acidity (pH) of […]
Recent research shows the potential of yeast to protect fruit harvests New research sheds light on the potential of Kluyveromyces marxianus’s cell wall to preserve fruit harvests. The researchers of Zhejiang University, China, published the findings in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. Postharvest diseases can seriously threaten fruit’s edible safety, nutritional […]
The large ‘Ferments of the Future’ innovation centre was recently inaugurated in Saclay, south of Paris. It is a major hub for research and innovation in fermentation processes. It aims to open up the ‘black box’ of ferments. Research is focusing on topics such as improving the texture of plant-based […]
During a March seminar for sheep industry professionals, Lallemand exposed the benefits of live yeasts for lambs and ewes. These virtues include better microbiota balance, ruminal pH and fiber breakdown according to one of the company’s engineers. The benefits are strong for the offspring when the diet is given around […]
Yeast could have cancer-fighting compounds, according to new research published in scientific journal PLOS-One. The scientists at Osaka Metropolitan University showed that common foods, including yeast (specifically torula yeast) and salmon could prevent tumour cells from replicating. Using elements such as torula yeast RNA, the team of scientists showed that […]
Researchers managed to grow protein-rich yeast in wastewater from the food and pharmaceutical industries. The researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) showed that the yeast cell Debaryomyces hansenii could grow in wastewater from two industrial plants. These waters had high saline, lactose and nitrogen concentrations which was ideal for the […]
A new piece of scientific research published in September in The Embo Journal shows that yeast cells communicate with each other when predicting a shortage of nutrients. Shin Ohsawa and his collaborators at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science at the University of Tokyo made this discovery. For this type […]
On June 19th, Lallemand Animal Nutrition delivered an expertise on yeast’s assets in the nutrition industry, in Madrid, Spain. It has been known for many years that adding yeast and yeast derivatives to pig nutrition is beneficial for pigs. In a way. Yeast is most likely part of the diet […]
According to this recent news, Lesaffre will acquire DSM-Firmenich’s yeast extract go-to-market organization and know-how as the two companies agreed to collaborate on yeast derivatives serving the savory ingredients space. The acquisition allows Lesaffre’s global manufacturing network to make DSM-Firmenich’s yeast extract products. “This transaction completely fits in our strategy […]
COFALEC Confederation of European Yeast Producers is happy to have hosted its 65th General Assembly in Stockholm on 28th June 2024. Over 50 participants joined us for this significant event, many thanks to all attendees, speakers and partners for making it a success! In particular, we would like to thank […]
According to Oil and Fats International, German biotechnology company Insempra has raised US$20M in funding to expand production of yeast-fermented lipids for food and cosmetics. Following an initial US$15M seed round in 2021, the latest financing round would enable the company to continue building a technology platform to produce sustainable […]
Nutritional yeast is often lauded online as a seasoning that’s dairy-free but tastes like cheese, making it popular among vegans looking to get their cheesy fix. “Nutritional yeast is a vegan diet staple because it’s loaded with B12, a nutrient that’s hard to get enough of without animal products,” registered […]