To your friends, family, and co-workers, you're the weird one for that crock of
fermenting cabbage on your counter, the packets of kefir grains you're always giving away as gifts, and the fact that you have a shovel designed specifically for digging kimchi fermentation holes in your backyard.
Not exact matches
Sauerkraut is
cabbage that has been
fermented by a strain of bacteria called lactobacillus, which naturally exist
on the outer layer of
cabbage.
But if you're feeling bold, try
fermenting some cucumbers for tangy pickles,
cabbage for kimchi or sauerkraut, or the following hot pineapple chutney recipe that's delicious served with tortilla chips or
on fish tacos!
You'll see pyramids of
cabbages heaped
on street corners, apartment balconies covered with them and the earthenware crocks in which they'll
ferment.
The byproducts of fermentation (and thus the benefits) vary depending
on the type of food that is being
fermented — whether it's
cabbage or cheese.
Our advice is to focus
on the foods that contain probiotics naturally such as probiotic yogurt,
fermented cabbage (sauerkraut), buttermilk and milk kefir as the processed foods are often loaded with unhealthy additional ingredients such as cane sugar.
The
fermented cabbage and onions are softened a lot in the fermentation process, but they are still very healthy roughage, able to make it through 90 % of the digestive process to your lower gut, offering some protection to bacteria and providing surfaces
on which those replacement bacterial spores can begin to grow.
Chew
on this: where raw
cabbage has a decent amount of vitamin C, once it's
fermented, it can have up to 20 + times more vitamin C!
Once the
cabbage soaked in vinegar has had a chance to age (a day or two in the refrigerator, a few hours at room temperature), the
cabbage ferments and produces the nutrients that the beneficial lacto bacteria thrive
on.
This might be a dumb question, but once
fermented on the counter for 3 - 7 days do you dump out the
cabbage, beets, and onion?
Probiotic foods such as
fermented cabbage (also known as sauerkraut) are useful as a add -
on to any probiotic therapy but alone these will not contain enough beneficial bacteria to bring the overgrowth under control.
Made from
fermented cabbage and other
fermented vegetables — this traditional Korean cuisine is seasoned with chili powder, ginger, garlic and other spices depending
on the region.
This means we always have delicious carrots, sauerkraut (
fermented cabbage), pickles, etc.
on hand to add to lunches and for snacks.
So he turned the barbecue chef
on to Russian - style
fermented cabbage as a side dish instead of coleslaw.»