One of the nutritional trends around promoting a healthy gut is “fermented” foods and beverages - via healthing_ca health healthing healthnews
found that young adults consuming kimchi experience favourable changes to their gut microbiome and a reduction in the amount of inflammation in their gastrointestinal tract.
Given that kimchi is a vegetable, and it does appear to have probiotic capacity, it’s certainly hard to argue against its inclusion for those who are interested in it.Kombucha is essentially a fermented, sweetened tea — usually made from black or green tea, both of which contain a wide range of healthful antioxidant compounds as well as caffeine.
It is fermented using a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast — also known as SCOBY — which includes members of the lactic acid bacteria family, not dissimilar to how kimchi is fermented.It seems to be viewed, in some circles, as a miraculous beverage with untold health properties. But the reality of the matter is that it is more or less just tea with varying levels of certain probiotic species in it.
available to quantify the impact of Kombucha on human health, but it could have a complimentary role to play in fostering a healthy gut microbiome along side a strong dietary pattern.Probiotics and fermented foods aren’t the same The take away is that both Kombucha and kimchi are essentially fermented versions of foods we already comfortably identify with as being healthy, like tea and cabbageDoes the introduction of certain probiotics via the fermentation turn these foods into superfoods? That’s a stretch, but there may be potential there that requires further human studies to confirm.
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