Using flesh cowpea (Vigna sinensis as) raw material to make fermented cowpea, the fermentation method such as natural wet fermentation, natural dry fermentation, pure-culture wet fermentation and pure-culture dry fermentation was adopted. The changes of fermented cowpea pH, total acid, reducing sugar, total sugar, amino acid nitrogen, nitrite content were tested in the process of fermentation, and the effect of four different fermentation methods on fermented cowpea quality was analyzed. Experimental results showed that pure-culture wet ferme...