Maintaining a healthy microbiome can boost your immune system, improve your digestion and gut health, increase your brainpower, and may even prevent a variety of diseases.
But you don’t have to buy fancy pills, capsules, or designer foods to build up your body’s microscopic allies.
As it turns out, traditional foods like milk kefir are less expensive, healthier, and more effective at delivering “good” bacteria where you need them most.
Scientific research demonstrates 6 major health benefits from drinking traditional milk kefir, with new findings coming out all the time.
Keep reading to learn all the different ways milk kefir can boost your health, how to safely make it at home and 3 kefir recipes that will put any store-bought kefir to shame.
A savory cheese spread is always great to use on your fresh baked sourdough and even better, this one uses milk kefir cheese as the main ingredient! Milk Kefir cheese is full of wonderful probiotics and also loaded with calcium! It’s very simple to make but we have to warn you, you’ll want to eat the...
Milk Kefir cheese is an amazing addition to your diet! It is full of probiotics, nutrients, and is just an overall amazing addition for gut health. Spicing it up with beetroot, fennel, garlic, and other beautiful herbs adds a savory deliciousness that you will want to spread onto your sourdough bread or crackers for extra probiotics!...
Speaking of yummy fermented drinks, perhaps the most delicious, creamy, and healthy of them all is milk kefir. If you haven’t heard of it before, don't worry, all will be explained. But for those looking to make their own healthy homemade version - welcome - we have much to discuss. I’m new here. What’s milk kefir?...
You’ll get double the dose of probiotics in this two step ice cream! For the first step you will be fermenting cherries and in the next you need some milk kefir and an ice cream maker to create this delicious ice cream. And you will use the fermented honey as the sweetener which makes it even...
If you are looking for a great spread to add on to your sourdough, bagel, or to use with crackers, this is it!. It’s a creamy salmon spread that is made with milk kefir cheese so you know that it is full of probiotic goodness! This recipe came to us from Janine in the Gut Health...
If you are looking for a healthier Valentine's day treat, these Chocolate Kefir Candies are a great addition to your day! They are created with Milk Kefir so they are full of probiotics and also, with the Plant Derived Minerals, make sure that your body is working at its optimal level! This recipe came to us...
Seasonal allergies can be a bane for many Australians and this year has been one of the toughest yet for sufferers like me. I've tried everything from anti-histamine tablets to corticosteroid nasal sprays etc. But still no respite.
If you cannot have dairy, this recipe is a great cheese alternative! Using coconut kefir cheese you are still receiving the benefits of kefir, but it is dairy free. Rolling this cheese in Dukkah, an Egyptian condiment made of ground nuts, seeds, spices, and herbs, brings you a savory treat full of benefits. This recipe came...
If you are looking for a delicious, healthy, and refreshing treat, you’re going to love this ice cream! It is made with milk kefir and kefir cheese so you know that it is full of probiotics to improve your gut health! You can top this with the wonderful Rhubarb Jam to get more prebiotics into your...
There was an exciting new research study published and it suggests that there may be good reason to eat your extra kefir grains along with kefir to flatten your tummy this summer.
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As gut health and the importance of a healthy and stable immune system are increasingly becoming both the mantra of mainstream science, health professionals, and nutritionists, kefir has been thrust into the spotlight as a way of boosting our health in general. So what is all the fuss about? Here’s all you need to know about...