Importance Of Microbiology In Food

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Maryan Ibrahim

Discuss the role of microbiology in ensuring food supplies and food safety.

Microbiology has had a big part in food safety and food supply. Microbiology has educated us on how different ways to preserve our food. Microbiology has helped immensely with food supply, by making efforts to keep harmful organisms from our food. Teaching us the importance of not only nourishing our bodies but making sure its safe and abundant is what microbiology has don for us.
Microbiology has helped preserve our food through different processes. By making sure our food doesn’t go bad very quickly that can also manage waste. More than 25% of food supply is wasted, however people die of hunger everyday. So by using microbial processes we can make
Many relate the existence of cyanobacteria to be the reason for life on earth. Cyanobacteria are aquatic and photosynthetic. They live in the water and can find their own food. Since they are bacteria they have one cell and are really small, but grow in large colonies. They are distinctive because they have one of the oldest fossils being over 3.5 billion years old.
Cyanobacterium have an immense importance because they shaped the course of evolution by being an important maker of nitrogen fertilizer which make beans and rice. The planets oxygen atmosphere is because of cyanobacteria. Since before time we didn’t have much chemistry in the atmosphere that was made for life.
Another importance would be the origin of plants. The chloroplast plants eat is a cyanobacterium that lives in plants. They are often call blue-green algae for their prescence in water and their color.
I actually learned of this microbe at work. I was so interested even though I don’t believe in the textbook definition of evolution. One of my coworkers said that he believed Cyanobacterium was GOD. As I became alert from his answer, I began to research it. Although, I still don’t believe the bacteria is GOD it still certainly deserves

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