My question is this — every other «how to» I've read regarding water kefir says that you need to add
sugar for water kefir to properly ferment.
Not exact matches
Let me ask, as Im doing lots of
kefir,
water kefir, and your apple sauce recipe is again right up my alley, so I was curious once you add the
water kefir to the apple sauce recipe, it essentially consumes all the
sugars, making it safer
for people with blood
sugar issues, similiar to when you secondary ferment
water kefir adding fruit juice, and it consumes the
sugars still, or the organisms do.
Water Kefir Soda is made from water and a little sugar, plus some fruit (optional) for flavo
Water Kefir Soda is made from
water and a little sugar, plus some fruit (optional) for flavo
water and a little
sugar, plus some fruit (optional)
for flavoring.
Filtered
water (NOT tap
water — you'll kill your
kefir grains; make sure the
water is filtered
for chlorine and fluoride) Organic
sugar (1/4 cup)-- I use plain white organic cane
sugar but you can use other forms of
sugar such as Sucanat or palm
sugar Optional: Molasses (1 tsp)-- You can omit this if you are using the egg shell Piece of an egg shell (half of the egg shell will do)
You may actually just culture the grains in
sugar water and change the
sugar water each day
for a few days before you bother making a
water kefir beverage.
I have been leaving the
water kefir grains in the
sugar water for 2 days, then straining them and repeating the process.
Even though the recipe calls
for quite a bit of
sugar, the beneficial bacteria in the
water kefir grains consume this (like food), as they metabolize the
sugar, they produce beneficial bacteria, B vitamins, beneficial acids and food enzymes (helpful
for digestion).
If you notice your grains looking mushy, or reducing in size, return them to
sugar water and take a break from making coconut
water kefir for a while.
I am not doing dairy
for this reason and thus thought
water kefir would be good, yet I am concerned about all the
sugar.
Refresh and reactivate the
kefir grains in sugar water (1⁄4 cup sugar in 4 cups water) for 24 to 48 hours between batches of Coconut Water K
kefir grains in
sugar water (1⁄4 cup sugar in 4 cups water) for 24 to 48 hours between batches of Coconut Water K
water (1⁄4 cup
sugar in 4 cups
water) for 24 to 48 hours between batches of Coconut Water K
water)
for 24 to 48 hours between batches of Coconut
Water K
Water KefirKefir.
To take a break from making
Kefir, store the
Kefir grains in the refrigerator
for up to a week covered with
sugar water (for Water Kefir Grains) or milk (for Milk Kefir Gra
water (
for Water Kefir Grains) or milk (for Milk Kefir Gra
Water Kefir Grains) or milk (
for Milk
Kefir Grains).
The only thing we use
sugar for is making Kombucha,
water kefir and homemade sodas, and the great majority of it is fermented out and converted to beneficial bacteria before we drink it.
Some prefer to omit all of the
sugar, and those drinking coconut
water kefir for a candida cleanse should leave it out, but we recommend using 25 %
sugar for the best flavor.
I milk my own Jersey, eat my own eggs and meat beef, chicken goat; grow many of my own veggies year round, eat lots of cream and butter, the fat on my meat, bone broth; within the last year have given up vegetable oils except olive; gluten free
for 2 years; very little organic cane
sugar say less than 2 - 3 T. daily, many days none; wine and cheese of my own making, mostly my own and daily; milk and / or
water kefir daily; work at home is my exercise along with stretching; 90 % organix in everything.
water kefir I made a
water kefir from lemon, rapadura
sugar and fresh cut ginger, fermented it
for 36 hrs.
Kefir changes dairy in some very beneficial ways but it doesn't do anything
for water — so if you're gonna drink it, drink it because you like it and know that it is an added -
sugar drink.
Rinse the
kefir grains well (I soaked mine
for a few hours in plain
water, then rinsed several times) then start a new batch of
kefir using white
sugar and molasses.
You might need to feed your
kefir a diet of white
sugar water for a bit.
My favorite probiotic rich cultured foods are: Jun tea, (directions
for making Jun & why I love it here), raw fermented sauerkraut and cultured veggies like carrots, beets, & ginger, Kevita
sugar - free
kefir made from fermented coconut
water, and goat milk
kefir (which I love in this no - churn goat
kefir ice cream recipe).
If I'm tired of the babysitting and want to take a break from
water kefir for a while, I put the grains into a small jar with some
sugar water and put them in the fridge.
You may actually just culture the grains in
sugar water and change the
sugar water each day
for a few days before you bother making a
water kefir beverage.
To stop those cravings
for sugar, carbohydrates and even alcohol, you can make Young Coconut
Kefir at home using fresh coconut
water and our Body Ecology starters.
Plain white
sugar is the easiest
for the
water kefir grains to consume, plus it's cheapest, and as a result is the most popular.
Our family's favorite flavoring
for water kefir is from using organic grape juice concentrate (no
sugar added).
The question is its the same
for cane
sugar in
water with milk
kefir grains?
For some people with
sugar issues, making their own coconut
water kefir at home is the only healthful fermented beverage option.
These
water kefir grains seemed to be working well but I let them sit on the counter in a bowl of
sugar water with lemon
for days I just got busy and forgot about them and I killed them.
Coconut
water does not provide enough nutrition
for water kefir grains to reproduce so they will need to be rested in
sugar water after every batch or so to renutrify.