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Vinagre criollo (Ecuadorian banana vinegar)vinagre montubio

Vinagre criollo, also called vinagre montubio or vinagre de guineo, is a home banana vinegar of coastal Ecuador. Ripe bananas are peeled and shut in a covered container until they break down into a light-brown liquid, which is sieved off and keeps souring. Artisanal banana vinegar from Rocafuerte in Manabí grows a mother of vinegar that a Manabí university study used as its acetic starter.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Vinagre criollo itself.

Short entryVinegar4 days – 5 days

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedNo fixed amounts in the sources read.
Ripe bananasRipened on the bunch until yellow, then peeled[s1]
Starterspontaneous; an artisanal banana vinegar grows its own mother of vinegar

Total time across the recorded steps: 4 days – 5 days

Start
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shapes, not to countYeastsAcetic acid bacteriaAcetobacter aceti

What changes: A banana bunch ripens from green to yellow

Step 1 of 3
Ripen the bunch
Time
about a week, until the fruit turns yellow
Reported
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Yeasts
Acetic acid bacteria
Acetobacter aceti

Output: ripe fruit.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Vinagre criollo, also called vinagre montubio or vinagre de guineo, is a home banana vinegar of coastal Ecuador. Ripe bananas are peeled and shut in a covered container until they break down into a light-brown liquid, which is sieved off and keeps souring. Artisanal banana vinegar from Rocafuerte in Manabí grows a mother of vinegar that a Manabí university study used as its acetic starter. Made in 3 steps over 4 days – 5 days. The longest step, peel and seal in a covered container, takes 4–5 days (Wikipedia (es) 2026). Yeasts from the fruit, then acetic acid bacteria; the mother of an artisanal Rocafuerte banana vinegar was used as a source of Acetobacter aceti does most of the fermenting.

Key numbers
Main step4–5 daysReported[s1]Peel and seal in a covered container

What makes this one different

Made from whole ripe bananas, not from a wine or a sap. The fruit itself breaks down and ferments in a closed container before the liquid is sieved off, so there is no separate juicing or wine stage.

Related ferments

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [s1] Wikipedia (es), Vinagre criollo (fetched 2026-10-23; the article is tagged as needing references)wiki
  2. [yachasun2019] Brito-Terán J., García V., Intriago-Intriago L., Vélez C., Zambrano G., Rosero E. 2019, Diseño de un biorreactor para la producción industrial de vinagre de manzana, Revista Científica Multidisciplinaria Arbitrada Yachasun 3(5):8–18 (full text via Redalyc; cites the Rocafuerte banana-vinegar mother only)paper