0 past simple and past participle of ferment
1 If food or drink ferments or if you ferment it, the sugar in it changes into alcohol because of a chemical process:
The price per litre of the fermented product is a function of nearness to the markets.
Advances in biological control of fungal leaf pathogens through fermented organic substrates and microorganisms.
The bacterium fermented sugars, di- and polysaccharides, under strongly anaerobic conditions.
The batter was placed into casings, and then fermented and dried.
All strains produced cytochrome oxidase, fermented glucose, inositol and mellobiose with acid but without gas production.
Epidemiological and laboratory investigations identified consumption of contaminated, dry fermented, salami as the cause of the outbreak.
It is often made into a candy, preserve, or syrup that can be fermented into colonche, a mild narcotic drink.
Part of the milk is retained for home consumption and the remainder is sold, mostly in fermented form.
