Fatty acids aren't pure fat and same for glycerol molecules. You may not be consuming straight fat, but things that create fat in your system.
Water would move out of the cells of the microorganisms by osmosis and the cytoplasm would become dehydrated, killing the cells.
The brine is a hypertonic solution, thereby "pulling" the water out of the bacterial cells.
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18 chromosomes I guess verify
Evaporation of the liquid
