Fermentation has been utilized to prepare tasty and healthy foods for a long time in China. Chinese people started to realize the benefit of fermented food to human health a long time ago. Some of the typical fermented foods are pickles made from some vegetables, and vinegar and alcohol made from grains. Fermentation has been widely used to prepare soybean products. Popular fermented soybean foods in China are sufu (fermented tofu), douchi (fermented soybeans), soy sauce, and fermented soymilk. Sufu and douchi had become parts of the Chinese meal at least 2,000 years ago2,26 . Douchi was found in the artifacts from the Tomb of West Han Dynasty of Mawangdui, Hunan province33 .
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