Kefir is a product elaborated from the symbiotic fermentation of different microorganisms. The Kluyveromyces and Saccharomyces genera are the major representatives of the yeasts found in kefir ...

Objective To compare the effects of fermented kefir on the nutritional, physiological, and biochemical parameters of rats. Methods Grains of milk kefir (whole and skimmed) and water kefir (brown sugar ...

I now drink around 8-10 ounces of kefir a day. That said, if you’ve never had kefir before, you should start with half that ...

Medically reviewed by Aviv Joshua, MS, RDN Kefir is a popular fermented drink made of milk and kefir grains that contains ...

Kefir and yogurt are both fermented foods that contain beneficial bacteria called probiotics. Yogurt is created with cultured bacteria and kefir with kefir grains (live cultures that ferment milk ...

I was resting near a playground, between interviews for a story on the shrinking number of Tibetan kids in a boarding school built for them in the northern Indian city of Dharamshala. This ...

Fermented foods significantly boost gut health by enriching the microbiome with beneficial bacteria and prebiotics. Kimchi, a Korean staple, lowers blood pressure and aids digestion. Kefir ...

A blanket of calm enshrouds The Copernicus Room at the New Castle Public Library as a group of six Tibetan monks quietly and diligently work to create a colorful sand art mandala. The monks ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods ...

Over the last few years, however, we've found a growing number of cases where bacteria have evolved the ability to break down such chemicals, like industrial contaminants and plastics ...