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Kimchi

김치

Fermented chinese cabbage, cabbage, spring onion - Korea, East Asia. Salt, temperature, duration and pH as published, with the sentence each came from.

Parameters

Salt in the cabbage after salting
2.0 to 4.0% w/w

The prepared cabbage is placed in a salt solution (8-15%) for two to seven hours in order increase the salt content of the cabbage to between 2.0-4.0% (w/w).

FAO Bulletin 134 6.2.3

Salting solution
8 to 15% salt in water

The prepared cabbage is placed in a salt solution (8-15%) for two to seven hours in order increase the salt content of the cabbage to between 2.0-4.0% (w/w).

FAO Bulletin 134 6.2.3

Time in the salting solution
two to seven hours

The prepared cabbage is placed in a salt solution (8-15%) for two to seven hours in order increase the salt content of the cabbage to between 2.0-4.0% (w/w).

FAO Bulletin 134 6.2.3

Organisms named
Lactobacillus plantarum, L. brevis, Streptococcus faecalis, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Pediococcus pentosaceus

Among the two hundred bacteria isolated form kimchi, the important micro-organisms in kimchi fermentation are known to be Lactobacillus plantarum, L. Brevis, Streptococcus faecalis, Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Pediococcus pentosaceus.

FAO Bulletin 134 6.2.3

How it is made, step by step - 5 steps, each one quoted from FAO Bulletin 134 6.2.3.

Substrate

Region

Method

Why this is here

Kimchi (; Korean: 김치; pronounced [kim.tɕʰi]) is a traditional Korean side dish (banchan) consisting of salted and fermented vegetables, most often napa cabbage or Korean radish.

English Wikipedia, Kimchi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Character

Described in the literature as acidic, mild-sour, wet, side-dish.

Other ingredients: Garlic, red pepper, green onion, ginger, and salt.

Organisms

As named by the sources, under the names those sources used. Where a name has since been reassigned, the organism page says so and gives the current one.

The published record

SourceWhat it says
FAO Bulletin 134 Table 2.1Listed as fermented in brine of the East Asia. Taken by the bulletin from G. Campbell-Platt (1987).
Tamang, J.P., Watanabe, K. and Holzapfel, W.H.Microorganisms isolated from some common and uncommon fermented vegetable products of the world.
Swain, M.R., Anandharaj, M., Ray, R.C. and Parveen Rani, R.Examples of traditional fermented fruits and vegetables, which are used in various parts of Asian subcontinent.

Composition

Sodium is the number worth reading here. It is what the salt percentage produced.

FoodSodium mg/100 gEnergy kcalSource
Kimchi49815Survey (FNDDS)

Same substrate

Same region

Fields on this page come from Literature FAO 134 Wikipedia. Nothing here is inferred from one field to fill another. What each dataset is, and what it is not allowed to supply, is on methodology.

Name, region and substrate partly from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0). Neither supplies a number on this site.