Fermentation vs Digestion - What's the difference?
fermentation | digestion |
(biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
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* Charles Kingsley
The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
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The ability to use this process.
The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
(medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.
As nouns the difference between fermentation and digestion
is that fermentation is any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide while digestion is the process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.fermentation
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Noun
(wikipedia fermentation) (en noun)- It puts the soul to fermentation and activity.
- a universal fermentation of human thought and faith
Derived terms
* alcoholic fermentation * malolactic fermentation * secondary fermentation ----digestion
English
(wikipedia digestion)Noun
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}