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"Our findings show that symptoms are more often triggered by fermentable carbohydrates, commonly known as FODMAPs, by other wheat components or by people's expectations and prior experiences with food."

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

Controlling fermentation involves using either low temperatures to limit yeast activity, strains of yeast that are unable to break down certain sugars, or wort that is less fermentable.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2023

Resistant starch, found in pulses, bananas and cooked-and-cooled pasta, rice and potatoes is one surprising source of fermentable, prebiotic “fiber.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Types: All sakes designated junmai contain only rice, water, yeast and koji, a mold that converts starch into fermentable sugars.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

It is all as if into some fermentable medium or solution a little yeast were dropped that changed the quiet calm of its surface into a bubbling, effervescing revolution.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.