ferment
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These compounds are produced when gut microbes ferment dietary material and are important for normal intestinal function.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Any transport delay can risk ruining the batch. If it takes longer than 24 hours, the internal sugars begin to rot and ferment unpredictably, destroying the delicate flavour profile needed for premium spirits," says Dhariwal.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
With the help of large handheld food mixers, they carefully grind the mixture of dried Californian grapes and water, which they then ferment before distilling it in a large still imported from Germany.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
For that sugar to then ferment and produce alcohol, the person giving the sample would also need to have a yeast infection, she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
If so, the adoption of Algonkian in the Northeast would mark an era of spiritual ferment and heady conversion, much like the time when Islam rose and spread Arabic throughout the Middle East.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Soon, this liquid ferments into a tangy beverage with a touch of viscosity, somewhat like Mexico’s pulque.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Kombucha is made when a SCOBY, a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, ferments sweetened tea.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Using an assembler in Germany, it takes grape juice, ferments it with bacteria which does not produce alcohol, and adds Chinese green tea to offer complexity and tannins.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Firebrand does that by adding less malted barley - the main source of sugar which ferments into alcohol.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024
Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons—throw it to some human being or some human idea.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Raw and fermented milk is more widely drunk in rural areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The concoction has a slightly fermented aftertaste and is popular in Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kennedy and several other Cabinet members have reportedly embraced versions of the plan, which emphasizes grass-fed meat and fermented foods while eliminating alcohol and sugary foods.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
On a sidewalk in a middle-class neighborhood of Colima city, the Bejarano family is selling tuba, a refreshing fermented drink made from the fresh, sweet sap of the coconut palm tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Ma had shown me how to marinate it with soya, garlic, and fermented black bean.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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At his factory west of Tokyo, workers in hygienic uniforms wash, steam -- and lavishly spray bacteria on -- soybeans that machines then meticulously assemble in cups, before fermenting them for 18 hours.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
It is a sugar alcohol typically made by fermenting corn and is now used in hundreds of food products.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2026
While undergoing treatment, his mother became a fixture in the kitchen, helping on the line and tending to pots of fermenting kimchi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Rum is typically made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses, the thick treacle-like substance leftover after refined sugar has been produced from the harvested plants.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
Techniques were developed in eastern Australia for rendering abundant and starchy, but extremely poisonous, cycad seeds edible, by leaching out or fermenting the poison.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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