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How Good for You Is Kefir?

Posted on September 18, 2008

Kefir is pretty good for your, wrote Elena Conis in a Los Angeles Times article titled Kefir is nutritious, but larger health claims are on shakier ground, but beware the silly and exaggerated claims of the propagandist food faddists.What is kefir? For those who don't know:Kefir grains.Kefir's closest cousin is yogurt, also made by fermenting milk with bacteria. But kefir is fermented with more and different types of bacteria, in addition to yeast, which means the final product has more of the beneficial microorganisms, or probiotics, that first made yogurt a popular health food. Probiotics ...

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