Products and reagents of fermentation

Question

In common what are the products and reagents of fermentation?

Answer 1

In fermentation glucose (or sugar) is degraded into the pyruvic acid (each and every glucose molecule makes two pyruvic acid molecules). In this procedure two molecules of ATP are generated. According to the kind of fermentation, pyruvic acid can generate ethanol and carbon-dioxide (that is, in alcoholic fermentation) or lactic acid (that is, in lactic fermentation). There are some other varieties of fermentation in which pyruvic acid can produce acetic acid (that is, acetic fermentation), propionic acid, isopropanol (an alcohol also), and so on. The kind of fermentation based on the species of involved organisms.