Cider

High school (ages 12+)
Food & Cooking

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/cider

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the primary ingredient?Fermented juice of apples, often from specific cider apple varieties
2. What is the key process?Alcoholic fermentation of apple sugars by yeast, often followed by malolactic fermentation
3. How is cider made?First the apples are pressed to get the juice. Yeast eats the sugars in the juice and turns them into alcohol and bubbles. The juice can be kept still or made fizzy.
4. Why did people drink cider instead of water in the past?In old times the water people drank was sometimes dirty, so making cider from apples was safer because the yeast killed bad germs while it turned the juice into a drink.

Tannins: Astringent compounds found in apples that contribute to cider's structure and mouthfeel.
Malic Acid: The primary acid in apples, responsible for tartness, which can be converted during malolactic fermentation.
Terroir: The environmental factors, such as soil, climate, and topography, that affect a crop's characteristics, influencing the final cider.