• Question: how can you make alcohol from potatoes?

    Asked by wetbiscuit to Betul, Bridget, Ceri-Wyn, Maria on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Maria Pawlowska

      Maria Pawlowska answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Bacteria use the sugar in the potatoes to make alcohol – bacteria and yest can do that from a lot of plants.

    • Photo: Bridget Waller

      Bridget Waller answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      You can make alcohol from any source of carbohydrate (sugars and starches), you just need to ferment it, or distill it, and this makes a polymer of carbohydrate called alcohol. Most of the commercial alcoholic drinks we buy nowadays have never seen a plant, fruit or vegetable…they are made from processed sugars and starches. Interesting question! 🙂

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