How to prepare fermented vegetables
Eating fermented vegetables is one of the simplest strategies for nourishing your gut, which is home to 80 percent of your immune system, and for optimizing your overall health.
While you can purchase high-quality fermented vegetables from carefully chosen sources, it’s ideal to make them yourself at home for three major reasons:
- You know that they were properly prepared
- You know exactly what’s in them
- You can customize your recipe to include ingredients you like
Why Eat Fermented Vegetables?
Properly made fermented vegetables contain very high levels of probiotics, much higher than the best probiotic supplements. That makes them ideal for optimizing your gut flora and promoting the colonization and growth of beneficial bacteria.
The probiotics from fermented vegetables offer many potential benefits, including:
• Breaking down and eliminating toxins and wastes from your body
• Helping your body produce B vitamins and vitamin K2
• Assisting in the absorption of minerals
• Helping you maintain your ideal weight
• Helping fend off disease and promoting wellness
• Improving your mood and promoting mental health
I'm doing home-made fermented vegetables, it's really easy.
You need only:
- grated vegetables (cabbage, carrots, onions, beetroot, other options ...)
- glass with lobster
- salt
I sprinkle the grated vegetables, shake them and press them in a glass. Vegetables need to be submerged in their own vegetable water. Now I'll just put my lid on the top and leave it at room temperature. After about five days it is ready, I close the lid and put it in the refrigerator.
I gradually eat and when I need to prepare another ....