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Sunki

Fermented turnip, leaves of otaki-turnip - Japan, South East Asia. Salt, temperature, duration and pH as published, with the sentence each came from.

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Salt
None added

Sunki is a non-salted and fermented vegetable product prepared from the leaves of "Otaki-turnip" in Kiso district, Nagano prefecture, Japan.

FAO Bulletin 134 6.3.4

Temperature
Low, produced in the winter season

Sunki is produced under low temperature (in winter season).

FAO Bulletin 134 6.3.4

Fermentation time
one to two months

The Otaki-turnip is boiled, inoculated with "Zumi" (a wild small apple) dried Sunki from the previous year and allowed to ferment for one to two months.

FAO Bulletin 134 6.3.4

Organisms named
Lactobacillus plantarum, L. brevis, Bacillus coagulans, Pediococcus pentosaceus

Micro-organisms involved include Lactobacillus plantarum, L. Brevis, Bacillus coagulans and Pediococcus pentosaceus (Makayama,1957).

FAO Bulletin 134 6.3.4

How it is made, step by step - 2 steps, each one quoted from FAO Bulletin 134 6.3.4.

Substrate

Region

Method

Character

Described in the literature as acidic, sour, wet.

Other ingredients: Wild apple.

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 pickled fruit and vegetables of the South 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.

Same substrate

Same region

Fields on this page come from Literature FAO 134. 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.