My family enjoys the cucumbers because they taste just like pickles, and they have the hidden benefits of probiotics! This recipe is from my cousin Wanda.

In untangling the health benefits we can attribute to fermented foods, he says, it’s important to address the common misconception that fermented foods are the same thing as “probiotics”—the latter being live bacteria that confer health benefits when consumed in adequate numbers, according to the definition set by an international panel of experts in both 2001 and 2014. Lactic acid bacteria will do the rest for you.

Fermented Cucumbers the Eastern European Way Contributed by GardensAll community member, Urszula Lewandowski This is the way people in Eastern Europe prepare probiotics for long winters. Although, to make a whole complete of these foods; the lactic acid bacteria are essential in making fermented foods and probiotics, but we can’t predict all say the specific health benefits they contain or the properties of these foods. The vitamins and probiotics produced from fermented foods are the proverbial gold. Fermentation is a natural process to make the vitimins of your food bio available — fermentation is a kind of microbiological alchemy. There are so many options when it comes to fermenting. The water quality of the fermented feed group showed much lower ammonia and nitrite (<0.050 mg/L) levels when compared with the formulated feed group. This is good for gut health. Recently I took a class on making fermented foods and I loved it! These results suggest that kelp residues fermented with probiotics enhance the growth, digestive enzyme activities and intestinal microbiota of sea cucumbers and improve the culture water quality. By applying a few principles, you can create anything your imagination can dream up. African traditional fermented foods remain the best superfoods with various nutritional benefits for any individuals living in rural communities in Africa. The sour pickles recipe is very simple, add one Tbs salt per quart of water, and let it ferment. I've noticed the last year or so a big improvement in my hens health by supplementing with various fermented foods and probiotics.

Get your probiotics with these tasty and well-made fermented foods.

Fermented Cucumbers.

See inside tips on pickling, and what vegetables you can pickle with lactofermentation. I love geeking out about digestion, whether it's sharing tips for optimal gut health or creative ways to get ginger into your diet.One easy way to possibly improve your gut health is to add live probiotic-rich fermented foods into your diet. I hope this hasn't been covered to death but I've found easy and cheap ways to produce a good amount and make it sustainable, while keeping everyone happy. Sour pickles, also called lacto-fermented pickles, or probiotic pickles are very easy to make at home. If you are new to fermentation, fermented cucumbers produce probiotics through lacto-fermentation.