Originally Posted by
Pinkiris
What's the advantage of eating these? Sounds interesting.
Well, besides being "tasty," as their name implies, they are also a fermented food. Fermenting a food can make it more nutritious than if it were not fermented. Fermentation can offer more nutritional benefits such as antioxidants, fiber, vitamin B complex, as well as much needed probiotics, which help in food absorption and maintaining a healthy intestinal tract. There are other suggested benefits that researchers are finding out about them. Please check online for more info.
It is interesting to note that any foods that we eat every day are indeed, fermented: Yogurt, chocolate, soy sauce, miso, cheese, sauerkraut, beer, wine, coffee, tea, sourdough bread, salami...the list goes on and on. It's just been lately that fermented foods have been super trendy and talked about so much. We've been living with them all along.