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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 26 Jan 2024

Fermentation

The conversion of organic compounds such as carbohydrate into simpler substances  such as ethanol or lactic acid by microbes, usually under anaerobic conditions (with no oxygen present). Energy is produced.