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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Microbes help turn GREEK yogurt waste into fuel

Waste whey from GREEK yogurt production is made up mostly of the familiar milk sugar lactose, the fruit sugar building block fructose, and the fermentation product lactic acid. The researchers use bacteria to turn this mixture into an extract containing two more useful compounds: caproic acid (n-hexanoic ...


READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT phys.org