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Turning stale bread into useful oil

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Wiebke Feuersenger
March 2, 2023

A baker and a biotechnologist professor in Austria have come up with a way that uses yeast cells to extract oil from old bread. It is an environmentally friendly alternative to palm oil, which is used a lot in baking, and keeps bread out of the dump.

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