Yeasts

A fungus is a group of organisms that produces spores and eats up organic material, like the yeasts in bread or beer, the mushrooms in your salad, the mold that may grow if you let that salad sit in the refrigerator for too long or even the organisms that produce antibiotics like penicillin.

Writing in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, researchers from Belgium, a country known for it’s chocolate, say that different yeasts used in the fermentation stage of chocolate production impart different flavors and aromas to the final product.