Fermentable

... wines, beers and cordials for my friends and family and know a bit about the subject. Alcohol is produced by yeasts fermenting sugars that are fermentable. (Actually there are chemicals that will ferment lactose and those are found a problem in lactose-intolerance but I digress.) Fructose, ...

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... (from Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 11th edition, page 571) Fermentation is an internally balanced oxidation-reduction process in which the fermentable substrate becomes both oxidized and reduced. This definition perfectly describes Lactic Acid/Ethanol Fermentations. ****Lactic acid fermentation**** ...

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... When yeast grows aerobicaly it takes up the free atmospheric oxygen and grows, but in anaerobic condition yeast can grow only in the presence of fermentable material such as sucrose(sugar). The chemical formula for sucrose is C6H12O6(That you very well know). The yeast takes the Oxygen required ...

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