Puto

File:Putoricecakes.jpgPuto in banana leaf liner

This article is about the Filipino food. For the Spanish homophobic epithet, see Spanish Profanity, or faggot for the English equivalent.

Puto is a type of fermented rice cake eaten in the Philippines.

It is produced by fermenting a mixture of soaked ground rice and sugar with a culture of bacteria such as Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Streptococcus faecalis. [1]

## See also

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* Idli
* list of rice dishes

## References

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1. ↑ Fungal Biotechnology in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Applications by Dilip K. Arora

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