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Card 08Shape: rod

Para

Lacticaseibacillus paracasei. Makes lactic acid, and keeps working in a cheese while it ages.

Para, a red rod-shaped bacterium in a striped cheesemonger’s apron, holding up a wedge of Swiss cheese and giving a thumbs up
Card 08Shape: rod
Para, a red rod-shaped bacterium in a striped cheesemonger’s apron, holding up a wedge of Swiss cheese and giving a thumbs up

Para

Lacticaseibacillus paracasei

Makes lactic acid, and keeps working in a cheese while it ages.

Para

The stats
Shape
A rod, alone or in short chains.
Hangs out
Small intestine. Also aged cheese.
Makes
Lactic acid.
Fun fact
In aged cheddar, L. paracasei is often one of the main bacteria still at work months after the cheese is made.
In the bottleNo.01 Probiotic 20 BillionNo.02 Probiotic 40 Billion with Prebiotics

The file on Para

Para’s full name is Lacticaseibacillus paracasei. Para means next to, and casei means of cheese, so the name says, roughly, the one next to the cheese one. He took that and opened a cheese counter.

He’s a rod, and since 2020 he shares Rhamny’s eighteen-letter genus. He makes lactic acid, and he’s one of the bacteria that keep working inside a cheese while it ages.

Shape
A rod, alone or in short chains.
Hangs out
Small intestine. Also aged cheese.
Makes
Lactic acid.
Fun fact
In aged cheddar, L. paracasei is often one of the main bacteria still at work months after the cheese is made.

AnnouncerThe wedge has been aged eighteen months. So has the joke.

Far-out fact

Paracasei means “next to casei”, and casei means “of cheese”.

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