Thursday, April 26, 2007

Kefir Time Is Now If You Want It To Be

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There are 3 types of kefir; milk, water and tea (kombucha) one of the things that these kefirs have in common is that they are best when made fresh. They cannot sit on a market shelf, not real kefir. That makes kefir a very person to person thing because kefir must then made by individuals for themselves or by individual people for other individuals it can not be made by corporations and be real kefir. I’ll go into to it later but what is sold in markets today as kefir is not real kefir although it is sold as such it is not real kefir.


I am a kefir advocate and I sell kefir, I know a few things that are going on. First people are slowly but surely becoming aware of the benefits, the attributes and qualities of kefir. I sell kefir on eBay and at my virtual store and I see more and more new people who want to acquire the means to make it themselves, they already know there is benefit there, they need to know “how and how to” get it and brew it. I want to speed this movement up by helping people learn the “how and the how to”.


Truth has no institutions, power always does. You don’t have to talk truth to power; believe me, they already know and they are hard at work spinning and distorting it until many a victim become dazed and walk around thinking that the things that seem and the things they have been told are real are real .They come to that place where they allow and agree to the idea that coke is the real thing and a diet coke is ok and when encountering a fermented milk for the first time think this is a very strange thing.


Home brewed real milk kefir is the most powerful and most effective delivery system of probiotics to the large intestine that there is, there is nothing else that comes close. Pharmaceutical companies will tell you that their concentrated pills of probiotics with their special additives are more effective but of course they are spinning. What do you think without even doing any research, could the companies that own the Gerber Baby Food company, who brought out a product as apple juice and it actually contained no apple in it, just artificial color and artificial flavor and they tried to sell this to babies would you believe them? Would you believe that a pill could be more powerful than a symbiotic community of bacteria creating fresh this day a probiotic drink? Without doing any research what do you think?


The thing about a symbiotic community is that they can do things together that they can’t do separately. That is the thing. Commercial kefir is a great thing but it is not real kefir. Look on the label of life way kefir. Now life way is a great product but it is not real kefir it is as they say in the ingredient section; cultured milk, powder milk, inulin or FOS and kefir strains.

Inulin; not to be confused with insulin. Is an oligosaccharide and FOS is a fructooligosaccharide which are natural ingredients found in artichokes and garlic in small quantities. They feed the bacteria in the large intestine but unlike yogurt or kefir they feed all bacteria both good and bad. I believe they are added because they have a sweet taste and commercial producers of kefir want the stuff to taste better, sweeter so more people will like the taste and more people will buy the product. The powder milk is put in to water down the tart taste of kefir and make the taste more benign and once again more likeable by the masses. Corporations have done focus groups and the results have sworn that most people don’t like the taste of milk kefir; it is not a warm cuddly texture or taste like yogurt, thus the inulin, the FOS and the powdered milk. Oh, inulin and FOS may cause bloating and gas and possibly an allergic reaction in many people both supplements being a food that has not been eaten by humans in this quantity at all in human history, we are not all able to tolerate it and some people may have bad reactions but it does make it taste better.


C ommercial producers of kefir also have the problem of yeast in kefir expanding as it grows because real kefir is alive and can’t be confined in an inexpensive package. Commercial kefir has no kefir strains of good yeast in it and real kefir does. Actually kefir without yeast is not kefir at all unless you call it yeast less kefir or kefir without yeast but you can not call it real kefir because real kefir has strains of kefir yeast.


Finally Life way brags that its kefir is fermented with 11 kefir strains. Real kefir is a symbiotic community of 30 kefir strains that include yeast. They work together doing things they could not do separately and there is no kefir more powerful that your kefir that you make at home daily for your family. Make your own kefir, it may not taste as good as yogurt but it would be good if you and your family had 4 ounces of the stuff in the morning and 4 ounces more at night. You would never have to worry about acid reflux. You would never have to take Nexium and deal with its side effect. Kefir’s side effects are valuable vitamins and minerals, a healthy colon and its alkaline attributes are a very effective safe way to counter acid reflux. It would be good if after an antibiotic treatment or regimen if you drank a liter of milk kefir a day for a few weeks.


If you are interested in a good tasting probiotic drink that you can drink all day and children like the taste and they like making it the answer is water kefir and tea kefir (kombucha) and that will be the next topic and that is really exciting and that will be the main fighting front on the kefir revolution because you can make your own soda that has no corn syrup and you can control the amount of sugar and the ingredients and it is delicious and fun

1 comment:

Melanie said...

This is great information and well written. Even having a knowledge of kefir, I learned something from your post. Thanks.