Episode 810:45
Pickles Makes Pickles
Where the sour in sauerkraut comes from
- Sugar in.Cabbage and cucumbers bring their own sugars to the crock.
- Acid out.Lactobacilli like Pickles ferment those sugars into lactic acid.
- Pucker.Lactic acid is the sour in sauerkraut and naturally fermented pickles.
Far-out fact
Lactobacilli ferment sugars into lactic acid, and that acid is what makes sauerkraut and naturally fermented pickles sour.
Starring
Pickles

