Question

Name some traditional Indian foods made of wheat, rice and Bengal gram (on their products) which involve the use of microbes.

Answer 1

For making dosa and idli rice powder is fermented by bacteria and for making bread(from wheat), yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is used.

Gutta (made from black gram) also uses bacteria.

Microbes are also used to ferment fish, soybean and bamboo shoots to make foods.