Mystery behind Chinese liquor fermentation
Jiangnan University · State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology · +1 more institution
Abstract
Background Chinese liquor, a very popular fermented alcoholic beverage with thousands of years’ history in China, though its flavour formation and microbial process have only been partly explored, is facing the industrial challenge of modernisation and standardisation for food quality and safety as well as sustainability. Meanwhile, the hidden knowledge behind the complicated and somehow empirical solid-state fermentation process of Chinese liquor can enrich the food sector to improve our quality of life, and benefit other industrial sectors in the modern biomass-based technology, economy and society. Scope and approach This review reveals the traditional fermentation process and characteristics of Chinese…
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- Biotechnology
- Modernization theory
- Sustainability
- Business
- Process (computing)
- Economics
- Computer science
- Biology