Filling your Thanksgiving menu with fermented foods unlocks delicious flavor combinations and unleashes feel-good flora in your gut.
Such a strategy may be especially helpful for those concerned that holiday meals could bring on uncomfortable or embarrassing digestive woes like gas and bloating.
Fermenting—often associated with a traditional process that lengthens the shelf life of food—adds probiotics, or live microorganisms, to food that eventually finds its way into our bodies. Probiotics assist us digestively with a number of other benefits, like improved immunity, gut microbial diversity, and nutrient absorption, to name a few.
Incorporating fermented foods into your diet doesn’t have to be complicated. You can buy them ready-made or make your own easy, at-home cultures that take only a few days....
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