Re: How about Goat kefir? Re: Milk Kefir or Water Kefir?

Bought kefir is not real kefir, it only uses a few yogurt strains, then watever bacteria are there, they pasteurize it for shelf life, killing any probiotics. You will also see ingredients like guar gum (thickening agents) and preservatives because it's not real kefir! This is slyly marketing factory junk, like most of the health food that you get in a store. Making your own kraut and kefir from quality ingredients is the only way to gauge if that product benefits you at all. :-)

Common sense proof: Real kefir will not keep in the fridge for more than a few days, since the bacteria keep growing and eventually use up all the lactose and turn it to curd. It will also explode a container so cannot possibly be packaged, shipped, and have a shelf life.

Real kefir is sustainable, meaning that it is made from colonies of kefir grains that grow with each batch, so you don't have to keep buying starter. It is an ancient and traditional way of preserving milk, as it eventually separates to curd that can be then made into cheese. It is a combination of HUNDREDS of symbiotic bacteria and yeasts, the way our gut should be. It has candida yeast in it, but not albicans. My theory is that albicans has set up shop in our gut in the absence of the yeast that should be there, if we only ate fermented food and not all this processed crap.

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