Use of fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses
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The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections
Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things
The French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
A German chemist named Eduard Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation
Two other scientists discovered exactly how enzymes cause fermentation
Tecnology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics
The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages is as old as the developement of agriculture itself