Cheeses grouped by how the curd is made and ripened, from fresh acid curds to cave-aged wheels.
Beers, wines, rice wines, spirits and other drinks where yeasts make alcohol.
Fish sauces, pastes, fermented whole fish and shellfish, from garum to surströmming.
Kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles and other vegetables soured in salt or brine.
Yogurts, kefirs, soured creams and other milks that bacteria or yeasts thicken and sour.
Dry sausages, cured hams and other meats that lactic bacteria acidify while they dry.
Sourdoughs, batters, porridges and steamed breads soured by lactic bacteria and yeasts.
Miso, soy sauce, natto, tempeh, douchi and other ferments of soybeans, beans and seeds.
Pastes, sauces and seasonings built on fermentation, from gochujang to doubanjiang.
Kombucha, kvass, tepache and other lightly fermented drinks.
Koji, nuruk, qu, ragi and the other mould and yeast starters that begin many ferments.
Fruits fermented in salt, sugar or their own juice, from umeboshi to preserved lemons.
Cassava, taro, enset and other roots soaked or buried until they ferment.
Vinegars, where acetic acid bacteria turn alcohol into acetic acid.
Ferments that fit no other group.
Leaves fermented by microbes rather than oxidised, such as pu-erh and lahpet.
Cocoa, coffee, vanilla and spices whose flavour comes from a fermentation step.
Insects and insect products that are fermented.
Eggs preserved by fermentation or by alkaline curing.