What’s So Great About Fermented Foods?

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'Taking Your Health to the Next Level

Probiotics are super popular these days, which may have you thinking, Is this just another diet fad?

The truth is that cultures around the world have consumed probiotics naturally in fermented foods for their potential health benefits for centuries. In addition to buying the many probiotic products on the market today, you can easily make your own tasty and nutritious probiotic foods to your family’s diet with surprisingly little effort or expense.'

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How to Brew Your Own Kombucha

 

So, What is Kombucha?

'Kombucha is a living health drink made by fermenting tea and sugar with the kombucha culture (also known as SCOBY or Mother). The result can sometimes taste a little vinegary, but most say it tastes something like something between sparkling apple cider and champagne, depending on what kind of tea you use.

Its origins are not 100% know, however it is thought to have originated in China, where it has been consumed for nearly 2,000 years. During the Tsin Dynasty in 221 BC, kombucha was known as “The Tea of Immortality.” This is also where the first record of kombucha consumption comes from.

It has also been used in Russia, Japan and Eastern Europe for many centuries. From Russia it spread to Prussia, Poland, Germany and Denmark but has been said to have died out, temporarily, during World War Two. After the war Dr Rudolph Skelnar created renewed interest in kombucha in Germany when he used it in his practice to treat cancer patients, metabolic disorders, high blood pressure and diabetes.'


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How To Turn Any Juice Into Lacto-Fermented Soda

'At Nik's suggestion, we lacto-fermented this standard, store bought grape juice that we had in our pantry from our grocery-shopping days (read about how we quit the grocery store here.) The grape soda that resulted was exceptionally delicious, perfectly sweet and bubbly without being cloying like a canned soda. Plus, fermentation greatly reduces the sugar content in juices and increases the beneficial enzymes and lactic acid.


I like that we took pasteurized juice off the shelf, a basically dead, sugar loaded food (it has no added sugar, but still) and brought it to life through natural fermentation. You really can ferment anything, any sweet liquid can be vitalized this way. Why drink plain old juice when you can make it bubbly, and much better for you?'




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Kombucha Tea: A Panacea For Many Ills

'Let’s go right to the heart of the matter. What is it about Kombucha Tea that makes it such an elixir of sorts?!

Why did the remote villages in Russia, where meat-eating and potatoes and vodka were standard fare every day, experience such unusual longevity and robust health by drinkingKombucha Tea?

Wherever Kombucha Tea has been used as a healing beverage, it has produced remarkable health benefits which are very easily understood. First, we look to the contexts like the remote Russian villages of yesteryear where diet was not aligned with the highest understanding.'

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How to Make Lacto-Fermented Vegetables

How to Make Lacto-Fermented Vegetables from Whole Life Nutrition on Vimeo.

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