Complex sentence: Traditionally, summer sausage is a fermented sausage with a low pH to slow bacterial growth and give a longer shelf life and give it a tangy taste that can be copied using citric acid as a shortcut to keeping cultures to ferment the following batch.
Split into simpler sentences: Traditionally, summer sausage is a fermented sausage with a low pH to slow bacterial growth and give a longer shelf life. This causes a tangy taste that can be copied using citric acid as a shortcut to keeping cultures to ferment the following batch.