At Nourished Kitchen, I write a lot about probiotics, lacto-fermented foods and their value in a nutrient-dense diet. Indeed, the topic seems to weave itself through nearly every post from unconventional ways to fight colds and flus to healthy treats for kids. At home, I strive to include a probiotic, lacto-fermented food or beverage at [...]
Prebiotics & Probiotics
August 14, 2009 By 14 Comments
Prebiotics and probiotics represent essential aspects of a wholesome, nourishing diet. Though not the same, prebiotics and probiotics complement one another and work together to improve overall health and wellness. Simplistically, a prebiotic promotes the proliferation of beneficial bacteria while probiotics contain live beneficial bacteria that help to recolonize your intenstinal flora. [...]
Water Kefir: A Quick Tutorial
August 11, 2009 By 127 Comments
Has a lost love of soda pop been nagging at you too long? We’ve developed a love of water kefir or tibicos in our home. A fermented beverage teeming with beneficial bacteria, it’s easily flavored, remarkably simple to prepare and more palatable than kombucha, offering a pleasant alternative to commercial sodas. Similar [...]
Sour Pickles
July 29, 2009 By 47 Comments
Sour pickles are a mainstay at our summer dinner table. Naturally fermented, sour pickles are rich in beneficial bacteria and food enzymes, offering a dairy-free source of probiotics. Vinegar pickles lack the beneficial bacteria and many of the heat-sensitive vitamins found in traditional, sour pickles. You see, real pickles are naturally fermented through [...]
10 Ways to Get More Probiotics (without Dairy)
July 27, 2009 By 22 Comments
We hear it all the time (and I say it plenty!): eat your yogurt for probiotics. But if you choose not to eat dairy foods or cannot tolerate them, finding dairy-free probiotic foods can pose more of a challenge; however, that doesn’t have to be the case. Indeed, there are many, many dairy-free [...]
Win a Pickle, Sauerkraut, and Kimchi Maker from the Raw Diet Store!
May 28, 2009 By
If you’ve read Nourished Kitchen for any length of time, you know how much I value nutrient-dense, probiotic foods. Fermented foods are deeply nutritive and contribute significantly to overall wellness. It is the beneficial bacteria in this foods that help to ensure the proper development and stimulation of the nervous system. Couple that [...]
Reader Questions: Animal Fat & Lactic Acid Fermentation
April 10, 2009 By 2 Comments
Ricki asked: Actually … Ricki commented on Fats for Cooking and Fats to Eat Uncooked a few days ago, but I thought it was such an insightful and good question that I wanted to give it greater visibility. Q: Thanks for the great info re: cooking fats and oils. Just wondering about the source of [...]
Giveaway: Cultures for Health
April 2, 2009 By
In the past few weeks, I’ve enjoyed a little treat: fresh, homemade matsoni courtesy of a new company Cultures for Health. Matsoni is a nice tart yogurt hailing from Georgia and was thought to convey long life. Matsoni is also a room-temperature yogurt that cultures well with minimal effort. For those of you [...]
Fat Soluble Vitamins: Vitamins A, D, E & K
April 1, 2009 By 15 Comments
Fat Soluble Vitamins Fat soluble vitamins are critical to health and wellness–particularly reproductive health and wellness. Unfortunately, adequate intake of fat soluble vitamins is sorely lacking among modern peoples–especially by comparison to traditional societies. Average intake of fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and vitamin K is inadequate at best [...]
Want Healthy Children? Let them Eat Dirt!
March 3, 2009 By 26 Comments
We all want healthy children, but did you know that children who eat dirt might actually be doing their bodies and long-term health a tremendous service? Providing a healthy, clean environment for children is of paramount importance, but the over sanitation of childhood might actually be doing children more harm than good. The [...]
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