## Metadata - Author: [[Tim Spector]] - Full Title: Food for Life - Category: #books ## Highlights - What do plants have in common? They have all evolved to use energy from the sun to convert nutrients from the soil to produce the sugars they use for energy and growth, a process called photosynthesis, which also generates oxygen. Plants inherited this skill from algae, who in turn inherited it from some clever bacteria about three billion years ago that had mutated to produce a chemical similar to chlorophyll, which is now found in all plants - Fermented foods are much more important than we ever realised, both in their health benefits and in the extra flavours and complexity they add. By fermented I mean foods that use live microbes in their production, what used to be called ‘cold-cooking’, but are also present in the final product