Hi blog buds!
Longtime readers of FitFeat may know that I am big on consuming probiotics, especially for maintaining a healthy immune system. I wrote about some of my favorite non-dairy sources of beneficial flora a while back. Now I have two more to add to the list.
The first is coconut water kefir by inner-?co™. I picked up the tropical flavor and it is absolutely delicious! I wanted to drink the whole bottle as if it were a kombucha tea, but alas the serving size is only a tablespoon. SO GOOD!
When you consider the cost of a good quality refrigerated probiotic pill often costing about $30 per 30-serving bottle, this coconut water kefir is a steal at about $11.00 for a 30-serving bottle. Their website has a lot of fun information too, if you want to learn more about kefir.
The next option is a cultured vegetable mix called “Vegi-Delite”. I recently made a couple of batches of homemade sauerkraut, but they aren’t fully fermented yet so in the meantime I thought I’d pick these up. (If you want to eat sauerkraut for its live-food fermented benefits, you need to find a version that is UNPASTEURIZED. Once it has been heated in the pasteurization process, all that good bacteria is dead. So the canned version you see on the store shelf next to canned corn is not the one you want.) However, this raw and unpasteurized product is alive, kicking and located in the refrigerated section.
I must admit that this particular blend of beets, cabbage and carrots is definitely an acquired taste, at least for me. I have to eat it with a meal and sneak bites of it in between other flavors to ‘hide’ it while I get used to it.
It sure is a pretty color though! 
Have you tried either of these products before? What are your thoughts? What’s your favorite source for beneficial bacteria?
– Shari B. =)
