It's used by people who have to avoid dairy and other things that
yogurt cultures tend to contain.
Not exact matches
Yogurt and cheese are
cultured and thus
tend to be more easily digested.
Because we
tend to eat probiotic foods every day at my house, including raw milk, homemade raw
yogurt and cheese, sauerkraut, kombucha, and
cultured condiments, I don't go out of my way to take or give my family probiotic supplements unless it seems like our tummies or immune systems could use some extra support.
I also find that 24 - hour
yogurt tends to be thicker, probably due to the extended
culturing time that allows it to thicken and proliferate for longer.
Not only do people
tend to consume too few probiotic - rich foods —
yogurt, kefir, raw
cultured vegetables — but many common lifestyle habits destroy our vital intestinal bacterial ecosystem, such as the consumption of sugars and refined foods, use of oral antibiotics or ingesting them second - hand through animal products, and the intake of pesticides and other chemicals found in our foods and water supply.