We had a batch
of water kefir which you can use to make lemonade and other very healthy naturally carbonated drinks.
Not exact matches
Loads
of people have success with this, but typically you'll find dairy
kefir grains (
which have some lactose in them and are best avoided if you are lactose intolerant) and
water kefir grains,
which can work in a sugary
water drink, coconut
water, or other
water - based beverages and makes a light champagne - like drink.
Kombucha,
which many
of you are likely familiar with, differs from
water kefir because kombucha is specifically cultured in a tea and sugar medium, and
water kefir can be cultured using just
water and sugar.
One
of my favorite prebiotic - probiotic combos is coconut
water kefir (grab the recipe below),
which is both a delicious carbonated beverage and a tonic to balance your gut ecosystem.
What is interesting is that we control the diarrhea by taking out the newly introduce, daily
kefir water and spinach,
which is suggestive
of Histamine Intolerance.
While these carbonated sodas are exceedingly easy to make, they require
water kefir grains (also called sugar
kefir grains),
which are gelatinous communities
of yeast and bacteria.
Keep repeating the 4 day process until you have enough grains to make a batch
of water kefir to drink —
which uses a different recipe.
I experimented with the
water kefir which were abundant and put milk over a few
of them.
I was wondering about the photos
of the
Kefir which shows that it has what looks like
water in bottom
of jar and cream on top.
There are two varieties
of kefir grains:
water kefir which has a yellowish crystal color, and milk
kefir which has a white creamy cauliflower - type appearance that
of the size
of wheat kernels.
Water kefir is fermented with water kefir «grains», which are not actually grains but rather lots of little gelatinous translucent blobs of bacteria and y
Water kefir is fermented with
water kefir «grains», which are not actually grains but rather lots of little gelatinous translucent blobs of bacteria and y
water kefir «grains»,
which are not actually grains but rather lots
of little gelatinous translucent blobs
of bacteria and yeast.
First
of all, the recommended serving size is 4 grams,
which is less than you would need in a normal
water kefir cup.
Because
of the many strains
of bacteria in
Kefir, living in symbiosis, it doesn't matter
which medium is used to grow it in: raw or processed milk, soya milk, coconut juice or even in sugar
water.
Or you could try what one site suggests,
which is rinsing them off, putting them in fresh
water for 24 hours, making a batch
of kefir but chucking it, and then resuming where you left off.