Tempe, Biotechnology Utilization for Food
Tempe is a food product from simple Indonesian biotechnology. Tempe comes from soybeans mixed with Rhizopus and then fermented. Actually processing soybeans with yeast is also carried out in other countries such as China, Japan, India and other Asian countries. Uniquely, only tempe as a processed soybean from Indonesia uses Rhizopus. You could say, the ability to make soybean tempe is an original discovery of Indonesian society.
Tempe, which was once a typical Indonesian food, is now sought after in the world. Even the world's vegetarians are competing to produce tempe as a daily food requirement, considering the process of making tempe is very easy and cheap, and the large amount of iron substance contained in tempe.