Why does fermenting sugar create alcohol, but fermenting cabbage doesn’t?

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Why does fermenting sugar create alcohol, but fermenting cabbage doesn’t?

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https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/yeast-fermentation-and-the-making-of-beer-14372813/

That should answer most of your questions. Basically, various microbiota typically feed on one specific thing or another and can survive in particular environments. The yeast we use to create alcohol, typically Saccharomyces, feeds on sugar and produces alcohol. You can see it in the name, basically ‘sugar fungus’.

We typically use bacteria to ferment cabbage such as lactobacillus. So it’s a different organism entirely with a different metabolic product.