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Fermentation Atlas

Fermented foods by kind

Cheese 1208

Cheeses grouped by how the curd is made and ripened, from fresh acid curds to cave-aged wheels.

Alcoholic drinks 298

Beers, wines, rice wines, spirits and other drinks where yeasts make alcohol.

Fish and seafood 265

Fish sauces, pastes, fermented whole fish and shellfish, from garum to surströmming.

Vegetables 221

Kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles and other vegetables soured in salt or brine.

Fermented milk 154

Yogurts, kefirs, soured creams and other milks that bacteria or yeasts thicken and sour.

Meat 110

Dry sausages, cured hams and other meats that lactic bacteria acidify while they dry.

Cereals and bread 109

Sourdoughs, batters, porridges and steamed breads soured by lactic bacteria and yeasts.

Soy and legumes 109

Miso, soy sauce, natto, tempeh, douchi and other ferments of soybeans, beans and seeds.

Sauces and condiments 83

Pastes, sauces and seasonings built on fermentation, from gochujang to doubanjiang.

Soft drinks 51

Kombucha, kvass, tepache and other lightly fermented drinks.

Starters and koji 46

Koji, nuruk, qu, ragi and the other mould and yeast starters that begin many ferments.

Fruit 44

Fruits fermented in salt, sugar or their own juice, from umeboshi to preserved lemons.

Roots and tubers 38

Cassava, taro, enset and other roots soaked or buried until they ferment.

Vinegar 35

Vinegars, where acetic acid bacteria turn alcohol into acetic acid.

Other 33

Ferments that fit no other group.

Tea leaf 18

Leaves fermented by microbes rather than oxidised, such as pu-erh and lahpet.

Cocoa, coffee and spice 6

Cocoa, coffee, vanilla and spices whose flavour comes from a fermentation step.

Insects 5

Insects and insect products that are fermented.

Eggs 3

Eggs preserved by fermentation or by alkaline curing.