Yeast is essential for the fermentation that produces alcohol.
酵母对酿酒的发酵是必要的。
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This is also a type of alcohol that can be made by fermenting sugar (though the fermentation is done by a species of bacterium rather than by yeast), and it has some advantages over ethanol.
Using Chinese kiwifruit juice as raw material through alcoholfermentation and acetic acid fermentation produce a kind of kiwifruit vinegar it has some health care functions.