fermenting

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It is a sugar alcohol typically made by fermenting corn and is now used in hundreds of food products.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

While undergoing treatment, his mother became a fixture in the kitchen, helping on the line and tending to pots of fermenting kimchi.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

"These things are not coming out of nowhere. They are forces in American politics that have been underground for a while, but have been just kind of fermenting."

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

As Blackley says, much of the literature about raising cacao trees and then fermenting cacao is geared toward doing so in outdoor tropical climates.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

Thus he established an alternative to spontaneous generation—the notion that life could rise, in fermenting grape juice or rotting meat, entirely independent of preexisting life.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan