Part 2, supplement replacers
Sauerkraut: a multi-vitamin, probiotic/prebiotic, electrolyte, and digestive enzyme in one mouthful - and fun ways to serve it
“Sauerkraut is being considered one of the best functional foods across the world due to its therapeutic potential.” International Journal of Food Properties.
(Btw a “functional” food is one that brings a lot of health benefits beyond basic nutrition.)
I met a woman from Eastern Europe on one of my gut-health cookery classes who told me it had been her job as a child to put on her white wellies and stamp on the cabbages to make fermented cabbage sauerkraut each year.
It sounded like a lot of fun.
The vat of salted cabbage was then left to ferment all winter, and each time anyone wanted a jar, they popped down to the cellar and filled up.
Those of you reading this of Eastern European or German heritage may be rolling your eyes right now. What’s special about that? Everyone did that, right? How can that even be an anecdote?
So I’m relating this story in context of whether supplements are worth the money or not, first part was last week HERE and what foods we can use instead?
Nowadays many people aren’t habitually eating sauerkraut or other fermented cabbages such as red kraut.
Since the advent of fridges in the last few decades, the need to ferment our vegetables to preserve them for winter (which has been done for millennia) isn’t a necessity.
However more people are rediscovering fermentation which is a great way to get a lot of nutrition into us.
One of the many supplements I’m often asked about are multi-vitamins, probiotics/prebiotics, electrolytes, and digestive enzymes.
But did you know, if you had a spoonful of sauerkraut or other types of fermented cabbage each day, you would probably get these ticked off?
This is what you find in a spoonful of sauerkraut…