How Do You Eat Healthy With Fermented Foods?
Fermented foods contain probiotics, and those probiotics promote healthy flora in the body. Traditionally fermented foods, unlike modern preservation techniques, actually increase in nutrition compared to their original state. Vegetables are preserved by the lacto fermentation process, which converts natural sugars and starches to lactic acid. Earlier cultures used lactic fermentation to help keep vegetables edible without freezing or canning. Now, there is a return to these methods for health reasons, as well as for flavor and taste. Here’s how to eat healthy with fermented foods. Drink kefir, a cultured milk product full of enzymes and micro organisms that team up to improve your health. Some nutritionists advocate drinking only kefir and not plain milk, noting that native cultures found ways to preserve their milk as cheese, kefir and yogurt. Try Kombucha, a fermented beverage made from black tea and a solid colony of microorganisms that turn sugared tea into a healthy fermented bev
