FOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION
FOOD PRESERVATION METHODS
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discovered
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invented
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Our modern understanding of the fermentation process comes from the work of the French chemist Louis Pasteur (Figure 2). Pasteur was the first to demonstrate experimentally that fermented beverages result from the action of living yeast transforming glucose into ethanol.
Detailed explanation-2: -Humans have been controlling the fermentation process for thousands of years, primarily in the form of fermented beverages in the earliest days. Evidence of a fermented alcoholic beverage made from fruit, honey, and rice found in Neolithic China dates back to 7000-6600 BCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fermentation is the process of conversion of sugar into alcohol. The scientist who discovered fermentation was Louis Pasteur in 1857. Yeasts converts sugar into alcohol during fermentation.
Detailed explanation-4: -The discovery of biological enantioselectivity: Louis Pasteur and the fermentation of tartaric acid, 1857–a review and analysis 150 yr later.