Feeding Your Microbes: The Ultimate Guide to a Gut-Friendly Diet

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The human gut is a remarkable ecosystem, home to trillions of microorganisms collectively known as the gut microbiome. This complex community of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microbes plays a crucial role in our overall health, influencing a wide range of bodily functions far beyond simple digestion. Recent scientific research has revealed the gut microbiome’s … Read more

How To Make Probiotic Milk – Make Kefir and Yogurt at Home

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Making probiotic milk at home is very easy if you can get the proper milk. The proper milk is the one that can actually nourish bacteria, so a culture can properly develop. This can be raw milk, or pasteurized milk, but not the ultra pasteurized one, or the UHT. In other words, any milk that … Read more

Prebiotics vs Probiotics – Differences and Definition

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Difference Between Prebiotics and Probiotics Probiotics are microorganisms in a symbiotic relationship with humans, and prebiotics are the food for the microorganisms. In order to benefit from probiotics, (the good microbacterial flora), we need to nourish them, to allow the proper growth of their colony; without the proper food the micro flora would just starve … Read more

Fermented Wheat Bran – Romanian Borş

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Borș is a sour fermented juice obtained by fermenting wheat bran. Borș is traditionally used by Romanians to prepare their sour soups, (named either ciorbă, or less frequent borș), or they just drink it plain. Borș is pronounced “borsh“, and it might derive from the Ukrainian борщ, (borscht), although the fermented juice recipe is traditionally prepared in Romania … Read more

Fermented Foods Health Benefits

Sour Pickles - Fermented Vegetables

The Benefits of Unpasteurized Fermented Foods There are many health benefits from eating fermented foods, and historically, fermented foods have been known since the antiquity. There is a lot of scientific evidence that eating fermented foods benefits our health on a long and short term. There is almost no restriction to the age that fermented foods … Read more

Kefir vs Yogurt, Which Fermented Milk Drink Is Better?

Home Made Kefir

Yogurt Might Not Be the Best Fermented Milk Drink Kefir is a fermented milk drink, similar to yogurt, with a milder taste and a different probiotic composition. Kefir is gaining popularity more and more, because of its specific taste that appeals to many people, and because of its increased health benefits. Yogurt on the other … Read more

How to Treat Candida at Home – Best Probiotic for Candida

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Candida overgrowth can be cured with probiotics at home. Probiotics can be bought over the counter, but you need to know certain things before you start on a probiotic treatment. For some severe cases additional measures have to be taken to kill the excess of yeast, but in most cases a temporary increase in the … Read more

What are Fermented Foods and The Role of Probiotics

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Fermented foods are foods that are transformed through controlled fermentation, by microorganisms. Food fermentation has various objectives such preservation, taste and aroma enhancements, or even obtaining absolutely new foods, or drinks, without any resemblance of the original ingredients. What is Food Fermentation? Fermentation is basically a process in which an organism converts a carbohydrate such … Read more

What Is Yogurt

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Yogurt is a fermented milk product, made by controlled fermentation with special cultures. The cultures contain selected bacteria, that produce lactic acid giving the milk the sour taste. The bacteria also modify the milk’s texture, giving it the specific thickness that is very prized. Although there is an increased interest in vegan yogurt, we are … Read more

Sour Pickles Recipe – Probiotic Recipes

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How To Make Sauerkraut, Probiotic Pickled Cucumbers, and Pickled Vegetables Sour pickles are obtained by fermenting various vegetables in a brine. The process is also known as lactofermentation, because of the lactic acid bacteria, which are responsible for the fermentation process. Sour pickles are a great probiotic fermented food, very nutritious, and healthy. The fermentation … Read more

How to Make Boza Drink

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Probiotic Drink Boza Recipe Although the original recipe is done with millet, boza can be made from other cereals as well, and it is equally tasty and healthy. Most often it is made from bulgur, which is more accessible, and easier to process. In most of the Eastern European countries, the drink it is called … Read more

Fermented Foods List, Probiotic Foods

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Why Do We Need Fermented Foods? Probiotics are not a new medical discovery, humanity has been eating fermented foods, the best source of probiotics, since the beginning of history. The modern era has rediscovered the probiotics, hence the extra attention given by the medical world, the health industry, and the media. Probiotics are tiny life … Read more