The COST Action PIMENTO (CA20128 – Promoting Innovation of ferMENTed fOods) is organising the “Second Forum on Fermented Foods” which will take place in Málaga (Spain), between 5th-7th February 2025 at the School of Medicine, University of Málaga.

After the success of the First Forum on Fermented Foods in 2023, a Second Forum on FF will be organized to share the knowledge on these important foods so far: their variety, the large biodiversity of microorganisms involved and their metabolism, the innovation, sustainability and limitations on the FF production, the bioactivity of their compounds and their beneficial effects at different levels, and their role in a whole diet, among other essential topics.

Attempted sessions will be the following :

5th FEBRUARY 

9:00-9:30 - Opening session - Christophe Chassard

Session 1: Diversity of FF: Production and consumption - Effie Tsakalidou and Photis Papademas
Plenary - Paul Cotter 

Session 2 : Safety of FF - Carmen González and Zuzana Ciesarova

6th FEBRUARY 

Session 3 : M4S cluster - Guy Vergeres and Smilja Pracer

Session 4 : Health promoting effects of Fermented Foods - Guy Vergeres and Smilja Pracer
Plenary - Robert Hutkins

7th FEBRUARY 

Session 5 : Booster and hurdles for innovation in FF - Marie Chamomier-Verges and Antonio del Castale                 
Plenary - Bruno Pot