With her new book, “Ferment Your Vegetables” (Quarto Publishing Group), Philly-based author Amanda Feifer helps familiarize today’s home cooks with an age-old food preservation method. Feifer contends ...

Eating the fermented food kimchi daily for 12 weeks may also help improve the immune system, in addition to its gut health ...

Evidence suggests that fermented foods such as kimchi can boost gut health. A diverse microbiome is linked to overall good health. The gut-health researcher Emily Leeming uses tricks such as adding ...

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, the word “fermented” prompted scrunched noses, sickly frowns and gagging. Synonyms might as well have been “putrid” or “gross” — conjuring old, decaying food ...

What is fermentation, and how can eating fermented foods support better gut health? Here's what to know—and which foods to try for digestive benefits.

It's no secret that what you eat significantly impacts your health. The Western diet, often characterized by high levels of ultra-processed foods, added sugars and unhealthy fats, has long been linked ...

Both kimchi and sauerkraut are good for your gut health; neither is inherently better than the other. It all comes down to ...

A mason jar packed with cultured or fermented vegetables at your local urban provisions shop will likely set you back $10 to $15. Given that the time and materials involved are no more than five ...

These days, you can't throw a mason jar without hitting an artisanal pickle maker... or kombucha maker... or kimchi maker. As hipsters proliferate, so does the research on the health benefits of ...

Gut microbiota is essential to induction and activity of adaptive and innate immune responses. Dysbiosis causes an imbalance of pathogenic and commensal bacteria in the gut, producing microbial ...

Putney - In many countries, neighbors come together to harvest and process the fruits and vegetables of their labors. This tradition is alive and well in the hills of Vermont. There's a neighborhood ...

Fermented foods are said to be the healthiest in the world. According to some sources, the earliest recorded history of fermentation dates as far back as 6000 B.C. There were many reasons for these ...