Other forms: fermentations
Fermentation is the change sugar undergoes to make alcohol or bread rise. Primary fermentation, during fermentation, stop the fermentation.
Yeast does the work, converting sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide, and which of the two you want decides whether you are making beer or bread. Bacteria ferment too, which is what makes yoghurt and sauerkraut.
1nounfermentationThe change sugar undergoes to make alcohol or bread rise.
“During fermentation, the yeast turns the grape juice into wine.”
fermentation is a process.
Latin fermentatio comes from fermentum, leaven, from fervere, to boil.
Latin
fermentātiō
Middle English
fermentacioun
English, today
fermentation
From Middle English fermentacioun, from Latin fermentātiō. by surface analysis, ferment + -ation.
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