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Anyone with experience with particular microbe 'brews' to improve veggie taste?

  • 12-02-2015 7:40pm
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    brianiac
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    Random title - but was watching a youtube video from an australian show about a back-to-the-farm food critic who gets some advice from a microbiologist who specialises in making inoculations for soil to improve vegetable vigour and more importantly to me - taste.

    See youtube.com/watch?v=aKDoDXcohiI - from approx 5/6 mins in...and at the end

    They subsequently perform a very non-scientific but reasonable 'blind' A/B taste test of exact same veg seed grown in same soil and cooked the same way. they get three blindfolded people to taste the grub and they all express a definite preference for one veg which of course was grown with this extra inoculant.

    Certainly there is evidence of the importance of fungi in the soil/plant web, but i wasnt sure of such a seemingly stark improvement it would make. I suppose a compost 'tea' might be expected to achieve an effect but in the video she seems to be breeding particular strains of bacteria +/- fungii +/-whatever else.

    Just wondering if anyone has ever come across this kind of thing before and if so how effective did they find it?


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