History of Fermentation

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  • 220

    Chinese started using fermented tea to treat sickness

  • 400

    Chinese fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections

  • Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of the cell theory

  • Louis Pasteur deteremined that fermentation is caused by yeast.

  • Eduard Buchner received the Nobel pize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation

  • Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin determined exactly how enzymes cause fermentation

  • Technology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics

  • Fermentation is used to make bread and alcoholic beverages