History of Fermentation

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    Ferminated tea to treat illnesses

  • Schwan concluded fermintation is the result of living things

  • Louis Pasteur determined fermintation is caused by yeast

  • Eduard Buchner recieved nobel prize for showing enzymes in yeast cells, not the yeast cells themselves, cause fermintation

  • Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Cheplin, won nobel prize for determining exactly how enzymes cause fermintation.

  • The use of fermentation to make bread rise