{"podcast":{"title":"Slow Food, the podcast","slug":"slow-food-the-podcast-132404","podcast_index_feed_id":132404,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sfyn/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sfyn.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/8358275/SFYN_Podcast_23_7b5i3m.jpg","author":"Slow Food Youth Network","episode_count":100,"summary":"Our food chain is full of surprises and our food is handled by people you will most likely never meet. Where did your coffee come from? Who grew your cocoa for your chocolate? Who made your bread? We are about to start a journey together, finding our way through the food systems. In every step we take, we’ll walk side by side with one of our activists around the world. These are farmers, chefs and everyone in between. These people are all contributing to a more sustainable food system and they try to enhance access to good, clean and fair food. But we will also listen to stories of indigenous culture and knowledge, which can inspire us to think in a different way. We want to give a stage to the people, whose voices are often not taken into consideration, or who are simply overlooked in the debate around food. We want to demonstrate that we all contribute to a more sustainable food system, that everyone has a story to tell and that there's a lesson in every single one of them.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-food-the-podcast-132404"},"episode":{"title":"Why should we ferment plant-based foods? A deep-dive into food chemistry.","slug":"why-should-we-ferment-plant-based-foods-a-deep-dive-into-food-chemistry","published_at":"2026-02-24T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-food-the-podcast-132404/why-should-we-ferment-plant-based-foods-a-deep-dive-into-food-chemistry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-food-the-podcast-132404","url":"https://sfyn.podbean.com/e/why-should-we-ferment-plant-based-foods-a-deep-dive-into-food-chemistry/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bwyhgm5bbz7euyad/Slow_Food_Cleverfood_episode_V36a4rw.mp3","summary":"Can fermentation improve plant-based foods? What happens during fermentation from a food chemistry perspective? What are concrete health benefits of eating fermented foods? Today I am at the faculty of bioengineering in Leuven, Belgium, to interview professor and researcher Christophe Courtin. Christophe knows everything about the chemistry of fermentation. He has been researching fermented cereals for 15 years and he is now coordinating the project HealthFerm (we will tell you more about this in the course of the episode). Helthferm is part of the FOOD 2030 network, under the CLEVERFOOD project. From farmers and chefs to activists and everyday eaters, CLEVERFOOD is about bringing everyone into the conversation on building a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system for the future. Host: Valentina GrittiGuest: Christophe CourtinLinks: The link to the first paper on the HealthFerm Citizen Science project: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-026-00725-7 The link to the HealthFerm website: www.healthferm.eu This episode is part of the podcast series \"Tomorrow's Table: rethinking food as we know it\" co-produced by Slow Food Youth Network and ICONS for the EU-funded CLEVERFOOD project.Post-production: Klets.media","meta_description":"Can fermentation improve plant-based foods? What happens during fermentation from a food chemistry perspective? What are concrete health benefits of eatin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2133,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slow-food-the-podcast-132404/episodes/why-should-we-ferment-plant-based-foods-a-deep-dive-into-food-chemistry/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slow-food-the-podcast-132404/why-should-we-ferment-plant-based-foods-a-deep-dive-into-food-chemistry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}