AI Could Change the Future of Yogurt — And Turn Danone Around
The 104-year-old French company is in its second year of a turnaround effort that hinges on a yogurt renaissance
A Bifidobacterium strain, shaped like a Y, found in yogurt.
Source: Danone
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Making the yogurt of the future requires a cast of 21st-century helpers: machine learning, gut science and even a mysterious artificial stomach.
At a new Danone facility near Paris, researchers feed dollops of yogurt into globular glass vessels and plastic tubes designed to mimic the human gut. Once the bacteria inside show they can survive the digestive juices, artificial intelligence is put to work to probe their potential health benefits.