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Şalgam
A sour, red Turkish drink of black carrot, rock salt and bulgur or sourdough, fermented in a traditional two-stage method or a direct one, and drunk with food in southern Turkey.
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1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Fermented, enzyme-ripened and mixed seasonings328
Fruit preserves10
Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments10
Garum and fish sauces8
Adjacent and excluded7
Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments4
Acid and oil pickles3
Fermented fruit and fruit-derived foods3
Vegetable lactic3
Dairy ferments2
Smoked salted and dried foods2
Cheese1
Not yet classified1
All drinks99
Fermented beverages86
Fermented fruit and fruit-derived foods6
Fruit preserves3
Cereal, grain, root and starch fermentations2
Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments2
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Sikhye
A Korean sweet rice drink made by holding cooked rice in water drawn off barley malt until the grains float, then boiling and chilling it.
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Kyrgyz Bozo
Kyrgyz Bozo is a mixed-fermented cereal drink made with ground grits, sprouted-wheat ugut and carried-over starter. This registry preparation leaves cereal selection, water and starter allocation unresolved.
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Muday de trigo
Muday de trigo is a wheat-and-honey fermented drink recorded from vendors at Feria Rahue in Osorno; this contemporary batch cooks and grinds the grain before fermentation.
Saru-region rice and egg-millet tonoto
Tonoto is an Ainu ceremonial grain drink. This Saru River version ferments equal amounts of rice and egg millet with malted rice for about two to three days in summer or a week in winter.
Sake-Lees Amazake
A Japanese sweet drink made by dissolving sake lees in hot water and adding sugar, often with ginger or salt; it carries flavours and alcohol from sake brewing but normally undergoes no new fermentation.
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Northern Nigerian pearl-millet kunu zaki
A thick, spiced northern Nigerian drink of pearl millet in which only part of the fermented slurry is cooked, so raw starch and gelatinised starch are recombined.
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Mahewu from maize porridge and sprouted grain
A documentary account of Zimbabwean mahewu and one producer's formula. Its quantities exceed the stated vessels, and research does not validate it as a safe home method.
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Latvian rye-bread kvass
A documentary entry on Latvian rye-bread kvass, preserved from a modern Latvian rye collection. It records a food tradition, not a home-fermentation method.
Hi-ire (heat treatment of sake)
Hi-ire is the Japanese heat treatment of finished sake, about 65 °C, used to stop re-fermentation and souring. Brewers applied it from the Muromachi era.
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Istanbul bulgur and rice boza
A thick, pale Turkish winter drink of bulgur and rice cooked to a soft cereal base, sweetened with grape molasses and fermented for two days.
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Southern Ethiopian cheka with wheat and sorghum
A 2025 study formula combines wheat dough and sorghum porridge with sorghum malt and gesho in staged fermentation. Konso and Dirashe fieldwork records distinct cereal-and-leaf Cheka variants; the study formula is not universal.
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Jalisco tejuino from nixtamalized maize masa
A tart, lightly fermented drink of Jalisco: nixtamalized maize masa cooked with piloncillo and limed, then diluted over ice and salted at serving.
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Zambian munkoyo from maize meal and munkoyo root
A creamy, mildly sour Zambian cereal drink in which the dug roots of wild legumes supply both the enzymes that break the cooked starch down and the microorganisms that then ferment it.
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Malawian thobwa with corn and sorghum flour
A thick, sweet-sour Malawian drink of boiled maize flour into which sorghum flour is stirred before an overnight spontaneous fermentation.
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Morogoro maize-and-sorghum togwa
A Tanzanian cereal drink of cooked maize and sorghum flour thinned by sorghum-malt enzymes, soured by lactic acid bacteria and often started with a little of the previous batch.
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Kampala-style probiotic kwete from roasted maize flour
A Ugandan maize drink remade with a defined two-strain starter: roasted maize dough boiled to porridge, cooled and fermented under controlled conditions.
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Zambian chibwantu from maize grits and munkoyo root
A Zambian cereal drink built on coarse maize grits rather than meal, saccharified with an extract of wild munkoyo roots and then left to ferment spontaneously.
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Addis Ababa wheat borde
A thick, faintly fizzy Ethiopian cereal drink in which a wheat dough is fermented, roasted dark, then fermented a second time with barley malt into a drinkable slurry.