The Future of Health May be Ghost Sugar
Eating healthy bacteria that itself eats sugar
For a while now I’ve been experimenting with wild fermentation. This a process that involves leaving fruits and vegetables in the right environment to ferment on their own without any extra assistance (such as added yeast).
Often these fruits and vegetables already have enough bacteria on their skins and inside their flesh to begin the fermentation process on their own.
Leaving them in a dark environment, cut off from oxygen is almost enough.
But the bacteria needs food, so depending on the desired result we leave them to ferment with either salt or sugar.
When making a sauerkraut, you leave cabbage alone with approximately 2% of its weight in added salt. The bacteria that naturally lives in the cabbage will eat the salt and multiple until they’ve overrun the cabbage and turned it sour.
This creates a delicious sauerkraut that has become overrun with beneficial bacteria that will inhabit our gut once ingested.
Scientists are doing more and more research into the effects of beneficial bacteria living in our guts.
What we know so far is that they absolutely do have an effect on our overall health, and that they can force out bad bacteria…
