The Sourdough Library was founded in October 2013 in Saint-Vith, Belgium,[1] and is the only facility in the world dedicated to housing sourdough cultures.[2] The library is housed at the Puratos Center for Bread Flavour,[3] with a mission to conserve and promote sourdoughs from around the world, to conduct research, and to ensure the survival of the various strains for future use.[4] It currently has over 900 strains of wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria recorded.[5] Every new sample that arrives at the library is checked and analyzed in the laboratory, run by Professor Marco Gobbetti.[6] The library is a not-for profit initiative from Puratos and as of 2016 has 87 sourdoughs, including 12 from the United States.[7]
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- ^ "Puratos Canada inducts Canada's first sourdough culture into its one-of-a-kind sourdough library". www.newswire.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
- ^ "Center for Bread Flavour". Archived from the original on 2018-10-23. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
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- ^ "Puratos sourdough library inducts first Canadian sourdough | bake | baking news". Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
- ^ "The Puratos World Heritage Sourdough Library | The Quest for Sourdough". Quest for sourdough. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
- ^ "Puratos nearly doubles its sourdough library". Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2018-07-09.