It depends on interpretation of course  Hkwon believes that when reliable sources say Kimchi is a fermented food that implies all or at least the vast majority is fermented  I am actually almost inclined to agree with him in that the authors speaking from their contexts intended it to primarily mean that kimchi is by definition fermented  However I also believe that we have reliable sources that speak against that including some of the same sources that state that kimchi is fermented food  That is I believe that  reliable sources disagree and  some of the reliable sources are less than precise in their wording  As for your second statement youre asking for an impossibilityno one who believes kimchi is always fermented is going to explicitly state There is no such thing as unfermented kimchi  For example no source states Chocolate made from kimchi does not exist  You cant say that something does exist simply because no one asserts that it does not exist  I think it will help if we focus on what the dispute really isa dispute on  how to interpret reliable sources   a dispute on which sources are reliable and  a more fundamental dispute on what to do when most sources seem to state one thing but a measurable number state something else  Personally I still believe that the answer to that is a compromise wording as discussed above but perhaps the Mediation Cabal can assist us  The only reason I havent brought this to them since Hkwon mentioned it is that she said she was going to and because if he doesnt see the need to do so I think we already have consensus