In the 19th century, everyday foods were a minefield of invisible dangers.
Milk, wine, and beer could spoil without warning, and a single glass of fresh milk could carry deadly diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and diphtheria. The world was at the mercy of microscopic killers it didn’t even know existed. Then, a brilliant French chemist named Louis Pasteur, while trying to solve the problem of souring wine for the French emperor, made a world-changing discovery. He found that gently heating liquids to a specific
temperature killed the harmful microbes within them without ruining the product. This simple process, “pasteurization,” not only saved France’s wine industry but went on to make food safe for the masses, dramatically reducing infant mortality and saving countless millions of lives from horrific diseases.
.
#pasteurization #louispasteur #invention
