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Puto
Introduction
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]