Why does fermenting sugar create alcohol, but fermenting cabbage doesn’t?
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Bite a cabbage. Is it sweet? No, right? You need sugar to create alcohol. Cabbages are mostly cellulose (like wood!) and water. It doesn’t have much of what is needed to create alcohol when fermented.
A big kid explanation would involve the how cellulose is a polysaccharide, and how you need a simpler sugar to get ethanol.
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