Lacto-Fermentation Foods & Health-By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Fermented Foods are a hot topic, today Let’s talk about it. We wonder why our mothers always kept a bottle of onion pickle and lime pickle(lunu-dehi) on the dining table, and we used to nickname them, as ‘rice pullers’What are Lacto-fermented foods, also called lactic acid fermentation foods? Lacto does not refer here to milk, but refers to lactic acid, produced by lacto-bacillus bacteria. These bacilli are present in yogurt, cheese and the skin of most veggies and fruits among others. It is starches and sugars in your veggies and fruits that is converted into lactic acid by friendly bacteria -lactobacilli during fermentation Fermentation was used in the ancient times to preserve food, and making alcohol, Cheese, salami and more. Fermentation is a common practice which was performed from thousands of years ago. fermentation was generally performed to produce alcohol and wine. ...

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