The stale bread is in the process of producing alcohol in a fermentation tank in Stellenbosch University’s food science department. Image: Wendy Knowler
Not many people would look at a bag of stale bread and think: “I could make hand sanitiser out of that.”
But that’s exactly what scientists at Stellenbosch University’s food science department have done.
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