Can bacteria be cultivated as a source of food?

While cheese and yogurt are foods that are certainly processed by bacteria, I would think that the majority of the "food" portion would be dairy rather than bacterial (though please do correct me if I'm wrong!). read more

For possible avenues of other answers for this question, I would be really interested to know if we could cultivate Heterotrophic bacteria as a food source, or if there are any interesting prospects in synthetic biology or genetic engineering regarding bacteria and food. read more

E. coli. E. coli is the name of a type of bacteria that lives in your intestines and in the intestines of animals. Although most types of E. coli are harmless, some types can make you sick. The worst type of E. coli, known as E. coli O157:H7, causes bloody diarrhea and can sometimes cause kidney failure and even death. read more

Heterotrophic bacteria eat other organisms and absorb dead organic material. Autotrophic bacteria are photosynthetic. They can make their own food from sunlight like plants. They also give off the oxygen. Other bacteria absorb food from where they live on or live in. Some of these bacteria can live by unusual foods such as iron or sulfur. read more