DOMINO

Food and beverage fermentation dates back 7 000 years. Despite this long history, we know very little about the benefits of such a diet. The EU-funded DOMINO project will study the health impacts of a diet based on fermented food (milk kefir) on a healthy population and a cohort suffering from metabolic syndrome to better focus on health biomarkers and inform dietary recommendations. We are also missing strategies to ensure food production sustainability. The project will thus carry out six plant-based fermented food case studies within the framework of citizen science. These food prototypes will help to develop an open-access database and new computational tools for profiling food microbiomes’ metabolic interaction during food fermentation and their overlap with the healthy gut microbiome.