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Use of fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses
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400
The Chinese used fermented soybean curd to treat skin infections
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Schwann concluded that fermentation is the result of living things
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The French chemist Louis Pasteur determined that fermentation is caused by yeast.
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A German chemist named Eduard Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermentation
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Two other scientists discovered exactly how enzymes cause fermentation
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Tecnology was developed to use fermentation to produce antibiotics
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The use of fermentation to make bread rise and to produce alcoholic beverages is as old as the developement of agriculture itself