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Fermentation Atlas

Cocoa, coffee and spice

Cocoa, coffee, vanilla and spices whose flavour comes from a fermentation step.

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FermentRegionMain stepTemperatureSaltpH
Cocoa bean fermentationWest Africa7–14 daysup to 65 °C6.5 → 4.5
Coffee fermentation and processingAbout 70 coffee-growing countries across Latin America, Asia and Africa8.9 days24–42 °C
Coffee wet-process (washed) fermentationCoffee-growing regions worldwideup to 5 days4–4.5
Self-induced anaerobic fermentation (SIAF) of coffeeBrazil24 h – 3 days5.8 → 4.4
Vanilla curingMadagascar, Réunion, Comoros, Mexico, Indonesia, India and other vanilla-growing countriesat least 2 months
White pepper rettingIndonesia10–14 days

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