Micro4Food is a platform that joins different research fields related to food sciences, thus representing a center of excellence within the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

The research on “diet – human axis” aims at shaping and assembly the human gut microbiome in response to dietary habits and specifically tailored fermented functional foods. The research on “food fermentations” aims at shaping and assembly of the food microbiomes for innovative fermentation processes focused on the development of new functional food with improved nutritional proterties, on the preservation of food matrices, and on recycling of food by-products.