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People have been preserving food with smoke, likely since before agriculture. More recently phenols in wood smoke have been shown to have antimicrobial and anti
by inhumantsar 3y ago
People have been preserving food with smoke, likely since before agriculture. More recently phenols in wood smoke have been shown to have antimicrobial and antifungal properties. Eg: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37152755/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37152755/
Stands to reason that any culture which smokes food to preserve it might try fumigating with it
- xattt 3y agoTreatment of food by smoke is done before a pathogen has a chance to proliferate. If a fungus sets into wood, and smoke treatment is done after the fact, the smoke won’t be able to penetrate deep enough to completely eradicate something that’s well established.
- jvanderbot 3y agoI bet burning the wood to ash would do it. After all that's the subject of article