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A clear jar of ruby-red lacto-fermented beet slices submerged in saltwater brine beside a small dish of beet slices.
Elevated risk

Lacto-fermented beets

Raw beetroot cut and packed into a jar under a salt-water brine, fermented until sour and deeply coloured; the batch weight is not recorded.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Photograph of White cabbage sauerkraut.

White cabbage sauerkraut

A Penn State Extension crock method mixes 5 lb of shredded cabbage with 3 tablespoons of canning or pickling salt, packs it under its own brine and ferments it in a covered container.

Traditional method
· Vegetables
Photograph of Spey chrourk.

Spey chrourk

Cambodian pickle of blanched Chinese mustard greens, dried, then packed in a sweet-salt brine. Sold in Phnom Penh markets and made at home. The readiness times in the home recipe are not validated.

Phnom Penh
Vegetables
Whole mature purple-black Greek olives in clear brine in a glass jar, with a small bowl of olives beside it.
Elevated risk

Greek-style black olives in brine

Ripe olives go straight into brine with no lye and cure for months, mostly by yeasts. The home method here is the University of California two-stage brine.

Peloponnese and Central Greece · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Photograph of Spanish-style green olives.
Elevated risk

Spanish-style green olives

Spanish-style green olives, or Sevillian green olives, are green fruit treated with lye, rinsed, then fermented in brine for two to six months. The household batch here is a UC ANR method.

Andalusia, Spain
Vegetables
A ceramic bowl of Sichuan paocai, with crisp radish, cabbage and long bean in seasoned brine.

Sichuan paocai

Sichuan paocai is a family of vegetables, most often radish, fermented by lactic-acid bacteria in a salted, spiced brine in a water-sealed pottery jar, with mature brine kept and reused.

Sichuan
· Vegetables
Whole olive-green brine-fermented Polish cucumbers on a pale ceramic plate with dill and horseradish, on warm ivory.

Ogórki kiszone

Ogórki kiszone are Polish brine-fermented cucumbers. Two registered local practices keep the barrels in a well near Zakliczyn and under lake water at Kalisz Pomorski. Neither gives a validated process.

Zakliczyn area
Vegetables
Illustrative bowl of fermented Northeast Chinese napa cabbage, with pale golden leaves and a little brine.

Dongbei suancai

Napa cabbage fermented in a salt brine in Northeast China, traditionally in large ceramic or glass jars, until it turns sour.

Northeast China
· Vegetables
A shallow cream ceramic bowl of pale white-to-light-yellow, finely cut raw Choucroute d’Alsace, the fermented cabbage product.

Choucroute d’Alsace

Finely cut cabbage fermented with salt in vats by natural lactic fermentation, a protected Alsatian product sold raw or cooked after fermentation.

Alsace
· Vegetables
Pantelleria capers preserved in sea salt, served in a shallow ivory dish.

Cappero di Pantelleria

A protected Sicilian product: unopened caper buds from the island of Pantelleria, dry-salted with sea salt in a two-stage process that encourages lactic fermentation.

Pantelleria · Traditional method
Vegetables
Whole peeled garlic cloves submerged in pale brine in a clear glass jar with a glass weight, showing lacto-fermented garlic.
Elevated risk

Lacto-fermented garlic cloves

A small brine ferment of peeled garlic; the video also demonstrates optional onion and herbs.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Whole green okra and garlic in pale brine in a pint jar loosely covered with cloth.

Lacto-fermented okra pickles

Whole okra packs into a pint jar with garlic, salt, whey and water for a short room-temperature fermentation.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Illustrative Sauerreuben: fermented shredded turnip and carrot in a ceramic bowl, with a purple-top turnip in the background.

Sauerreuben (fermented turnips)

Shredded turnips and carrots are dry-salted, pressed beneath their juice and fermented as a cabbage-free kraut-style preserve.

Modern method
· Vegetables
A small bowl of finished Thai pak-kaat-dorng: yellow-green wilted mustard leaves and broad stems with a slight sheen of brine.

Pak-kaat-dorng (sweet rice-wash method)

Thai sweet mustard greens wilted in sun, packed in earthenware under a salt and palm-sugar brine with rice-wash water, then sunned three to five days.

Thailand · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative finished Sicilian-style green brine olives: whole muted green olives submerged in pale brine, with a few served in a plain bowl.
Elevated risk

Sicilian-style green brine olives

Green-ripe olives are fermented in seasoned, vinegar-adjusted brine; UC ANR gives size-dependent salt concentrations and multi-month handling.

Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative red cabbage sauerkraut served in a ceramic bowl beside a crock of cabbage in violet brine.

Red cabbage sauerkraut

Red cabbage shredded, salted and fermented in its own brine; the pigment gives a deep violet kraut with a sharper flavour than the white-cabbage form.

Traditional method
· Vegetables
A bowl of firm fermented dill pickles and cucumber spears with dill seed.

Fermented dill pickles

Trimmed cucumbers layered with dill and covered with a salt brine containing 5% vinegar, weighted and fermented three to six weeks.

United States · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Mixed carrot, radish, cauliflower, zucchini and pepper in a cloth-covered brine jar
Elevated risk

Mixed vegetables in one-litre brine

A 2 L jar holds cut carrot, radish, cauliflower, zucchini and pepper under a one-litre salt brine with aromatics; the source gives no produce mass or qualified endpoint.

Modern method
· Vegetables
A clear glass jar of shredded cabbage-and-carrot sauerkraut, with two filled jars behind it.
Elevated risk

Jar sauerkraut with carrot

Shredded cabbage and grated carrot are salted to 20 g/kg, rested, packed into three jars and monitored during a creator-reported eight-day fermentation; measured temperature is not given.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Finished salt-brined green chiles, pao-lajiao style: whole green peppers submerged in clear brine in a glass jar.

Salt-brined green chiles, pao-lajiao style

Whole green chiles are blanched briefly, then fermented in 3% salt brine with sake in a modern Japanese presentation of a wider Asian preparation.

China · Modern method
· Vegetables
Finished baek-kimchi cabbage with radish, carrot and green onion in pale brine.

Baek-kimchi (white napa-cabbage kimchi)

Napa cabbage is brined and filled with pear, radish, alliums, chives and fruit; this Korean kimchi omits red pepper flakes.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Traditional Kyoto shibazuke: purple perilla-stained eggplant pickle with cucumber in a plain ceramic bowl.

Shibazuke (Kyoto eggplant and perilla pickle)

Eggplant and perilla are layered with cucumber, myoga and chiles, pressed with salt and left to mature into Kyoto’s sour purple pickle.

Kyoto City, Japan · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative serving of quick Dongchimi: thin Korean radish discs in chilled, pale apple-onion broth. Not a photograph of a particular fermentation batch or a validated safety endpoint.

Quick dongchimi with apple broth

A modern broth-forward radish-water kimchi cooks apples and onion into the fermentation liquid.

Korea · Modern method
· Vegetables
Whole lacto-fermented green beans submerged in a clear glass jar of pale brine, with optional dill and garlic.
Elevated risk

Lacto-fermented green beans

Whole green beans fermented in a salt brine, with dill and garlic as optional seasonings, staying crisp as they sour.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Whole cabbage heads submerged in plain brine under a fitted weight in a clean fermenting tub; an illustrative depiction of the FAO method.

Whole-head brined sauerkraut

Cored cabbage heads ferment intact or halved under measured brine, with repeated surface checks over six weeks.

Modern method
· Vegetables
Yeolmu mulkimchi, young summer radish greens in a pale, chili-seasoned broth.

Yeolmu mulkimchi

Summer water kimchi of young radish, seasoned with fish sauce and chiles, brined in salted water with cooked flour.

Korea · Traditional method
· Vegetables