Can you clarify whether
fermented plant foods are good or harmful?
I've been under the impression that
fermented plant foods are good for us, promoting good bacteria and all.
As mentioned earlier,
fermented plant foods and animal foods feature different subtypes of vitamin K2.
For vitamin K2, you would mostly likely want to turn to
fermented plant foods (like miso or tempeh) or animal foods.
Better of just taking a dairy free probiotic and / or eating
fermented plant foods.
However, mushrooms (since they are themselves fungi) often contain B12, as do
fermented plant foods like tempeh or miso since they have been produced with the help of microorganisms.
There are two forms of vitamin K: vitamin K1 is found in green vegetables and plant oils, especially olive oil; vitamin K2, which is produced by intestinal bacteria in small and probably inconsequential amounts, is found in animal foods and
fermented plant foods.87
Beer is not a source of B12, nor is Miso, Sauerkraut or any other
fermented plant food.
Not exact matches
Found mainly in animal products, small amounts may be found in
plant products due to bacterial contamination.34, 35 However, these
plant and
fermented foods, such as spirulina, sea vegetables, tempeh, and miso, do not provide an active and reliable source, 36 so vitamin B12 must be obtained elsewhere in the diet.
This includes eliminating process
foods from our kitchen, eating a mostly
plant - based diet, and incorporating more
fermented foods into our daily meals.
Most of the time when people talk about
fermented foods and probiotic lactic acid bacteria, they often talk about yogurts, kefir, and skyr, but
plant based
foods are even better sources.
A
plant - based diet with lots of veggies, greens and
fermented foods is also key.
Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to
ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a
plant, retain only a little of this
food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.
In fact, dietary sources of vitamin K are found in two natural forms: phylloquinone (PK, or vitamin K1), which is widely distributed through
plant - based
foods, and menaquinones (MK, or vitamin K2), which appear to be primarily in animal products and
fermented foods.
Adding cultured and
fermented foods or as a supplement, also called probiotics, actually «
plants» healthy, friendly gut microbes to help create optimal health and reverse inflammation.
While Jennifer ate a pretty decent diet, she wasn't incorporating enough
plant foods as well as
fermented foods like kimchi and sauerkraut.
Soluble fibers found in whole
plant foods are
fermented by our gut bacteria into SCFAs like butyrate, propionate, and acetate.
For gut health, I keep some type of
fermented plant - based
food — sometimes kimchi, but currently sauerkraut (available at health
food stores)-- in my fridge.
And let's not forget that proteins come in a variety of
plant - based
food including edamame,
fermented or soaked beans, as well as greens.
Vitamin K1 is found in green
plants, while vitamin K2 is found in animal fats and
fermented foods.
In addition to eating a
plant - based diet, adding in
fermented foods like kimchi, kefir, miso, and kombucha helps to keep high levels of healthy bacteria in our gut.
We don't have the species that, for instance, manufacture serotonin or lower inflammation because 1) our lifestyle is so sanitised, 2) we don't eat
fermented foods like yoghurt or sauerkraut, and 3) we don't eat enough
plants with prebiotics like onions or garlic.
It's helpful to know kimchi & kombucha are harmful, but what about the vast universe of other
fermented foods like sourdough breads,
fermented pancakes like dosa / idli,
fermented veggies like sauerkraut, soy - based miso / natto / tempeh / soy sauces / Braggs aminos, cultured soy yogurt or
fermented plant - based «cheeses» etc..
Then I'd go all out on repairing your gut health by following the strategies in the book, eating plenty of
fermented foods, and prebiotics in
plants (like fiber, inulin, flavanoids).
We are much better off obtaining our protein from
plant based
foods such as whole or
fermented soy, quinoa, beans and lentils, whole grains such as brown rice and cous cous, and green leafy vegetables.
The whole
food plant based diet is also consistent with our design as «Hind gut
fermenting herbivores».
I think when we naturally get B. subtilus (from soil on garden
plants, natto or other
fermented foods) we're primarily ingesting it out of it's spore form so the bacteria mostly doesn't make intake through the digestive system.
Certain
fermented foods such as natto, and some varieties of
fermented veggies (the only
plant food that contains vitamin K2 due to the microbes involved in the fermentation)
Dietary fiber is the indigestible portion of
plant foods and has two main components: insoluble fiber (principally cellulose and lignin) and soluble fiber such as galacto - oligosaccharides and fructooligosaccharides (FOS), which are
fermented by the gut microbiota into short - chain fatty acids (SCFAs) acetate, propionate, and butyrate.
Vitamin K2 is generally only found in grass - fed animal products such as butter, cream, full fat cheeses, and organ meats, so it's hard to obtain from
plant sources except for certain types of
fermented foods.
There are absolutely different bacteria that
plant food is contaminated with, that is present in
fermented foods and that is present in our guts.
You can eat more bio-live yoghurt,
fermented foods like sauerkraut, and
plant foods such as garlic, apples or broccoli with prebiotic fibres.
If the idea of meat or dairy sends you running to the bathroom, try protein - rich
plant foods — like
fermented quinoa.
Animal tissues exclusively synthesize MK - 4, but many anaerobic bacteria synthesize other menaquinones, which they use for energy production much in the way that
plants use vitamin K1.80 We can therefore obtain vitamin K2 by absorbing that which is produced by our intestinal flora or by eating
fermented foods, in addition to eating animal
foods which contain vitamin K2 synthesized from vitamin K1 found in grass.
He began the development of a
fermented food made from wild plants and fruits and published his research in a 1987 paper titled, «The Isolation and Identification of Lactic Acid Bacteria from Naturally Fermented Wild Plants and Fruit
fermented food made from wild
plants and fruits and published his research in a 1987 paper titled, «The Isolation and Identification of Lactic Acid Bacteria from Naturally Fermented Wild Plants and Fruits.&
plants and fruits and published his research in a 1987 paper titled, «The Isolation and Identification of Lactic Acid Bacteria from Naturally
Fermented Wild Plants and Fruit
Fermented Wild
Plants and Fruits.&
Plants and Fruits.»
Those who can't wait for the research (IBD, IBS, celiac, NCGS, autoimmunes, just to improve general health recognizing the need for microbiome...) should eat a more healthy, more
plant based, more fresh
food diet, and if you want to add in probiotics, go with whole
food sources yogurt and / or
fermented vegetables.
And in many cases, the
plant foods were
fermented which we talked about a little bit earlier in the podcast.
Do you have any new information about Kimchi or any other
fermented plant based
foods.
Until recently, vegetarian and vegan literature claimed that certain
plant foods could provide B12 — seaweeds,
fermented soybeans, spirulina, even unwashed vegetables that have been fertilized with manure.
What about the
fermenting of these
plant based
foods that raises methionine levels.
This means your microbiome may be out of balance and needs gut - friendly
foods rather than the usual Western diet, known for its monotony of white color and little range of
plant colors and
fermented foods.
Ruminants, which
ferment plants in a specialized stomach before digestion, are estimated to be the largest single human - related source of methane, with greenhouse - gas emissions from sheep and cattle 19 to 48 times higher than beans or grains per pound of
food produced, according to the report.