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Discover the chemical process which produces some of our most common foodstuffs, from bread to yoghurt, to wine and vinegar.Key facts
- Fermentation is the process of converting sugar and other food items to other products with the help of microorganisms.
- The microorganisms commonly used in these reactions are yeast, mould and bacteria.
- Fermentation of wine involves adding yeast to grape juice inthe absence of oxygen.
- Yeast produces enzymes which break down natural sugar in to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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It turns milk into cheese, grapes into wine, and water boiled with barley seeds into beer.
These transformations may sound like the work of magic, but they're down to a natural process that changes the properties of substances, using the help of microorganisms.
It's called fermentation.
Fermentation
The exact type of fermentation depends on …
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