Unexplored microbial diversity from 2,500 food metagenomes and links with the human microbiome
Despite extensive studies on nutrition and the abiotic components of food, the food microbiome remains largely uncharacterized. In this study, a systematic metagenomic sequencing of microbiomes from over 2,500 food sources, integrated with metadata and analyzed in connection with the human microbiome, showed that many members of the gut microbiome may have been recently acquired from food sources.