Ferment pumpkin with beets, you will be healthy!

Probiotics are advertised and advertised for us. Eagerly! We stopped reacting, you never know what they want to sell us. We will live without them.

But in the summer there was an anti-advertising program. The doctor talked about the benefits of probiotics, just not those pharmacy ones. And those that you can cook yourself. Basically, it was about sauerkraut and cucumbers.

Our friends are very responsive to such information. And then, wow, they did not have cucumbers this year. How to replace cucumbers? They came up with! We decided to try to ferment brown tomatoes. After a week, the taste of pickled tomatoes was evaluated. It turned out to be delicious! Only the can quickly emptied. It became obvious that there would not be enough for the winter.

Then the idea came to try to ferment the pumpkin.

• The peeled pumpkin was cut into pieces and poured into a jar.
• And to make the fermentation process go faster, they added sourdough from pickled tomatoes.
• Fermentation started from the first day and on the third day one could recognize the taste of the fermented pumpkin.
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• The pumpkin has acquired the taste of pickled tomatoes. And they liked it.

By the way, of all the pickled vegetables, friends liked the pumpkin the most. And they fermented, in addition to the usual set, and daikon (it turned out well!), And bell pepper.

They set themselves a goal this year to try different vegetables to ferment. And so far they are only happy with the results.

They warn that not all varieties of tomatoes are suitable for pickling, there are those that excessively absorb salt and become tasteless.

Now the bomb!

Scientists' opinion

Did the Doctor tell the truth? Yes! Here is a super useful scientific for each of us article

I will convey the essence.

In the 60s of the twentieth century, lactobacilli were discovered. They should be present in every intestine, but have been found in only 40% of the population. Now this figure rarely exceeds 10%. Improper nutrition!

What foods contain lactobacilli? For example, in sauerkraut, sauerkraut, etc.

It would seem that everything is clear, you need to eat sauerkraut, cucumbers, tomatoes, why write a scientific article?

Scientists propose to make pure ferments of lactic acid bacteria for vegetable juices. Because with natural fermentation, the result is unpredictable, there are too many participants in the fermentation, different microorganisms. And in different parts of our big country, the natural microflora on vegetables is significantly different (which is why it tastes differently).

For us, the conclusion is simple, while they are developing sourdoughs, you need to ferment the vegetables and juices you have! The authors of the article, by the way, call for natural fermentation.

With such fermentation, the product is enriched, including

• organic acids
• essential amino acids
• vitamins
• the antioxidant properties of the product increase (we will age more slowly)

As we understand it, in the case of vegetables, fermentation and souring are synonymous.

So my uncooked tomato was in step with the times! This is necessary, 90% of Russians live without lactobacilli! Have survived!

Maybe kefir is better than leavened

So here's more news, kefir enriched with bacteria will not enrich us with a single bacterium, this is a study by Israeli scientists. it here

I advise you to read.

The study authors write that after antibiotics, the use of probiotics slows down the restoration of its own microflora. That is, simple kefir is healthier than heaped one.

For newborns and babies, the right probiotics can help, and significantly. But adults do not.

The advantage of pickled juices and vegetables is that whole generations of our ancestors have been adapted to them. Therefore, there is more hope for them than for dietary supplements.

This article has another important point: adaptation of the body is necessary. The idea applies not only to kefirchiks and probiotics, but also to any innovations. If you are thinking of starting to eat leavened, do not forget about it. Otherwise, you will only get into trouble.

And if we consider that the majority of people "planted" their pancreas, stomach, liver, then you need caution and more caution.

Do you like pickled vegetables?

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