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Chinese uses for fermented soybean curd
As early as 200 BC, the Chinese used fermented bean curd to treat skin infections, they also used fermented tea to treat a variety of illnesses. -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann concluded that fermentation was the result of living things -
Louis Pasteur
Yeast causes fermentation. Louis Pasteur was influenced by the work of Theodor Schwann who developed the cell theory. -
Edward Buchner
Edward Buchner received the Nobel prize for showing that enzymes in yeast cells, not the cells themselves caused fermentation -
Arthur Harden and Hans Euler-Chelpin
They won the Nobel prize for showing how enzymes caused fermentation. -
Fermentation uses
Fermentation was used to produce antibiotics. -
Fermentation uses
Fermentation is used to produce industrial chemicals, antibiotics, alcoholic beverages, make bread rise, and as a food preservative.