INVESTIGATION

FERMENTATION

Fermentation is a process that degrades

molecules to transform them into other
simpler molecules. In making bread, yeasts
transform starch (a complex sugar) into
glucose. They do this through the enzyme
amylase (other enzymes: glucosidases and
amyloglucosidases).

Most of the sugars that the yeast unfolds

are used by the yeast itself to live and develop, and another part is left in the
bread dough, giving it part of its flavor and the golden color of baking.

In the fermentation process some waste is produced:

Alcohol (that's why the fermentation of yeast is said to be alcoholic). This

alcohol (specifically ethanol) evaporates during baking.

Carbon dioxide or CO2, a gas that "inflates" the dough, in the form of bubbles.
The CO2 is also removed in the baking.

And it also produces heat (if they are fixed, a dough of bread when fermenting
generates its own heat).

This process in which CO2, alcohol and heat is generated is what we call
fermentation, the magical transformation of a mass of water and flour into the
wonderful food that, once baked, is bread.

In Conasi we advise you to understand the fermentation process so you can get
the best breads, either by hand or in a bakery.

Conditions necessary for fermentation to occur

Yeasts need certain conditions of food, humidity and temperature to live and
develop and thus lead to the fermentation of the dough:

Without moisture they cannot be activated, since the yeast needs its food to be
dissolved in water in order to assimilate it.

Its base food is sugars (what "likes" the most is glucose, it is the sugar that you
can use), it also needs some nitrogen (which it takes from proteins) and some
minerals. They use the sugars in the foods they ferment, transforming them.

Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee.

Chocolate. Most people consume
fermented foods and beverages daily.
Fermented food improves digestion and
strengthens the immune system in
different ways.

THE DESCOMPOSITION
Decomposition is a common process in biology
and chemistry. In biology, the term
decomposition refers to the reduction of the
body of a living organism to simpler forms of
matter. It is the act and consequence of
decomposing or decomposing (that is, of
generating disorder, segmenting the parts of a
compound, breaking down, entering into a
state of putrefaction or losing the healthy
state).

From the perspective of biology, decomposition

involves a process that leads to converting the body of a living organism into a
simpler form of matter.

The process is essential to recycle finite matter found in a biome. Although

there are no organisms that break down in the same way, they all suffer the
same sequential stages of decomposition.

One can differentiate between abiotic and biotic

decomposition (biodegradation). The first means
"degradation of a substance by physical or
chemical process; eg hydrolysis. The second
means "the metabolic breakdown of materials
into simple components by living organisms.
 CONCLUSION

It is important to learn about the natural processes that

transform living organisms, which allow them to be used or
disposed of.