Top 10 Probiotic Foods

This list is a bit misleading on the veggies…you DON’T want pickled sauerkraut, cucumbers/pickles, kimchi etc… you want CULTURED. “pickled” means it has been soaked in vinegar. No probiotics there.

If you aren’t going to make your own with a cultured starter or whey and let it ferment.

This is a very timely list for me. I was just talking to my sister about why we needed to get more probiotics in our diet. She can’t afford a daily probiotic supplement, because she is on a fixed diet. But I’m hoping we can both get the same benefits through our diet. Thanks for the list of probiotic foods!

Pickles and sauerkraut are good ONLY if you make them yourself or get the expensive variety at the health food store. The modern methods of manufacturing are not at all the same as the traditional methods.

Kimchi, on the other hand, I have bought from Walmart, and it has obviously been made the traditional way, because the jar is in danger of breaking it’s seal if you leave it too long…obviously (good) live bacteria in there. Of course, if Kimchi ever became popular enough to become a mass food, they’d do the same thing to it that they do to pickles and sauerkraut.

can you list a source for your claim that chocolate contains probiotics?

I recently made cheese and have a ton of whey left over. Does this contain probiotics and other healthy nutrients? I did heat the milk to 145 degrees F for 30 minutes. Thanks for the list!

Other probiotic foods would be Kombucha.. which is wonderful, it creates probiotics as well as anti tumor and anti cancer properties! You can make this yourself in large food grade glass containers 🙂

And there’s also Sour Poi. If you can get taro then you can make poi and you wanna let it sit for a few days or a week or month and keep it in a jar able to breath without anything being able to get in and contaminate including fruit flies that like to lay eggs in poi x.x Make sure there’s a thin layer of water on top to keep it from drying out. Sour poi is amazing for repairing the digestion as well as your DNA 🙂

Make sure the taro or poi you get is non-GMO and organic, this is very important. GMO’s mutate and destroy our DNA and non organic foods are heavily pesticided so your poi won’t be as beneficial if it were tainted in this way.

~Aloha <3

Miso soup, probiotic supplements (maybe greens supplements, if chlorella, etc. work? Those can taste good.), or fermented vegetables like sauerkraut and kimchi (can be thrown into many dishes/meals creatively) are quite good.

Unsure if miso and microalgaes actually has probiotics from my own research – just took that from above. 🙂

Clarifying a misconception about tempeh and B12:

Tempeh, miso, sea vegetables, and other plant foods are sometimes reported to contain vitamin B12. These products, however, are not reliable sources of the vitamin. The standard method for measuring vitamin B12 in foods measures both active and inactive forms of vitamin B12. The inactive form (also called analogues) actually interferes with normal vitamin B12 absorption and metabolism. When only active vitamin B12 is measured, plant foods including fermented soyfoods and sea vegetables do not contain significant amounts of active vitamin B12.

Sources:
Herbert V. Vitamin B12: Plant sources, requirements, and assay. Am j clin nutr 1988;48:852-858.

Van den Berg H, Dagnelie PC, van Staveren WA. Vitamin B12 and seaweed. Lancet 1988;1:242-3.

It would be much bettwr if some one could suggest Indian food or supplements to understand better.

I love kefir, but since I am now vegan, I am looking into trying to make coconut kefir. I just found out that fermented foods are higher in histamines, which can produce symptoms similar to allergies if their levels are too high. Since my wife has been having terrible allergies, I am worried that fermented food would only make it worse for her.

Anyone know if soy yogurt has the same benefits for iodine since I am supposed to avoid dairy?

Do the store-bought versions of foods such as pickles and sauerkraut contain probiotcs? I thought these were considered “dead” and only homemade were considered “live” ?

Pickled corn on the cob or pickled beans strait from the crock.If you cook fermented foods it kills the good bacteria in it.Raw fermented foods are the best.

Soy has been found to block the absorption of iodine because it has receptors that fit iodine’s in the thyroid, female breasts, ovaries and the prostate glands as well as several other glandular systems.. Coupled with perchlorate that is found in many rocket fuels that has now spread around the entire planet and is in the air and soil of everywhere, soy in any form should be strenuously avoided.

Orientals eat so much seafood and soy that they manage to absorb the bare minimum of iodine to survive, but inland orientals who eat soy and no seafood plants or animals have all of the serious deleterious effects of iodine deficiency.

Bromine is another chemical that fits iodine receptors and for some unknown reason, it has replaced iodine as a flour processing agent and is in all of our bread, cereal and flour based confections. This has been quite possibly the worst thing our nation has done for the public health. The use of bromine in flour production should be immediately outlawed as a severe public health danger and iodine should be used as soon as possibly.

Conditions like diabetes, autism and another dozen including preventable breast and prostate cancers have exploded since flour manufacturers began substituting bromine for iodine. Write the FDA about this and help to get this changed. We appear to be eating more than enough iodine since it is fed to livestock and its in our table salt, but eating flour products like bread negates much of the iodides we eat daily and many of us suffer from mild to moderate iodine deficiency as a result and this is a serious growing health disaster.

Once last thing. Half of iodine in a child bearing mother resides in their breasts. This is where infants get their iodine while breast feeding. Infants who get insufficient iodine in the womb or as an infant can grow fifteen to twenty IQ points dumber. If your child was normally destined to have a mean IQ of 100 then he or she will end up little smarter than Forest Gump and I doubt if they will have his exceptional luck.

Lack of iodine in the diet is the leading cause of mental retardation in the world and even in the first world nations its lack contributes to the dumbing down of our populations. Take this seriously folks and actively eat foods that contain iodine and the avoid the ones that block its intake like all soy products and all bread flours treated with bromine.

Modern medicine started in the 1700s when a French doctor successfully treated goiters with soluble iodine. It was the first disease successfully treated as a mineral deficiency. We can turn this around. Write the FDA!

“Orientals?” Really?

It’s racist, no just “not PC” please use the term Asians when referring to people of the East, it’s utterly offensive

This is all wrong kefir and yogurt is a horrible way to get probiotics. In fact it shouldn’t be consumed at all unless eaten raw organic dairy which is better than all that pasteurized stuff.

Oriental means “Easterner” Occidental means ‘Westerner.” So if I call someone from the East Coast or New England a Easterner or North Easterner then its a racial ephithet. Some of you are truly sad, blaming everything on whites while claiming victimhood. This is what America has devolved into. I for one will be glad when the entire insane thing breaks down and we can start over sanely. Bye little Oriental, this Occidental won’t be responding anymore to your low self-esteem posts.

All forms of soy including fermented soy fit the same iodine receptors all over the body. If you are going to eat soy products then take your water soluble iodine source at least a half hour before eating the soy. The receptors will fill up with iodine as they are supposed to and the other ones won’t be. That also goes for anything made of flour, oats, and foods with bromine or fluorine. Take your water soluble iodine the very first thing in the morning and wait a half hour before eating else.

Since when its been the same you little Progressive hater. Everyone’s a victim of white males right? Eff you.

I heard the other night on Coast to Coast that GMO crops now have reached 85% of all the crops in America. Monsanto, George Soros and Bill Gates are all behind the chemtrail spraying. There are now also large ships that have 500 miles long chemtrails and they sail under the various jetstreams. These are visible on the NASA satellite feeds. Go on line and look at the Pacific and see them for yourself.

Oceanographers have been begging our government to stop the chemtrail spraying because the aluminum oxide, strontium and barium sprayed are responsible for the acidification of the oceans. This acidification has been dissolving the limestone that covers massive amounts of methane along the world’s continental shelves.

Oceanographers are saying that the methane will raise the world’s temperatures to over 150 degrees. In thirty years the world will be sterile except for burrowing animals. This will be the same extinction event that killed off life that resulted in the rise of the saurians.

The government told them three weeks ago they were going to use Tesla’s HAARP weather control/weapon to burn off the methane. The strange explosions reported all over the continent late at night the last several weeks may be just that. Still Monsanto is the most evil corporation on the planet and they are going to forcibly starve off two thirds of the world’s population and then replant the world with their genetically aluminum resistant plants.

If you don’t believe this,read the reports of the massive die offs of rain and coniferous forests going on around the world right now. Droughts now ring the planet and it has nothing to do with global warming. The lush forests around Mt. Shasta are now dry any yellow because the aluminum oxide that is also destroying farmland sucks moisture out of air. This will make the Monsanto chiefs the rullers of the world as they will totally control the world’s food supplies and make them fortunes the world has never seen concentrated into a few hands..

Soros is now buying massive farm acreage that are no longer crop productive around the country for literally pennies on the dollar, and Gates has invested his billions in Monsanto also. Gates father was an old eugenisist who wanted to reduce the black population in America. Looks like junior is going to finish his evil plans. Sleep tight all and if you keep your heads buried in the sand, you will either die miserably or wake up a serf working for your new Monsatanto rulers. Email your corrupt congress people and tell them you will vote them out of office if they don’t stop the chemtrail spraying immediately. We probably only have two years left before the damage goes beyond our ability to reverse it.

I wish there were probiotic foods that taste good, besides the yogurt and chocolate, everything else I’ve tried and really, really don’t like.

holy racism!

You are very kind Bettina, but I’m afraid our nation is officially populated by the indoctrinated leftists. They make up forty percent of our nation and they are currently in charge right now. The cycle will turn yet again and the adults will regain control of the romper room.

I had gastric bypass a year ago. Every thing is going well, but the smell that comes along with boulmovments and gas is bad. I really can not afford the probiotic out of the drug store. What are the best natural probiotics I can buy?

oh PLEASE. white man’s burden much? get over yourself. if you’re gonna ‘play’ on the internet, be prepared to get checked when you’re out of order. update your vocabulary and get over it! and at the rate repunlicans are going, the “cycle” isn’t swinging back your way for a VERY long time. you probably won’t see it in your lifetime.

Scares you death doesn’t it callgirl? As to my vocabulary, I have a Master’s Degree, written 2 books plus my Master’s Thesis, read over 20,000 books and have a 150 IQ. Your ad hominem attack shows what a mental lightweight you are. Keep up the cheap shots callgirl. You and your ilk will be booted out very soon.

Most probiotic supplements are about one dollar a day, very similiar to the yogurt. Yogurt, having nearly 20 grams sugar, feeds the bad bacteria gut while you provide a very very mall amount of good bacteria.

It’s not an absolute but some people with runaway yeast proliferation find that abstaining from fermented beverages is necessary to find relief.

Hi Nikki,

Try Latero-Flora. It’s dairy and gluten free!

https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/latero-flora-probiotic-supplement.html

-Dr. G

Hey Jon, I recommend Kefir, it’s similar to yogurt but has some added benefits. Check out this recipe, it’s simple to make!

http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/coconut-milk-kefir-recipe/

Chances are pretty good that if you are eating “dark chocolate” for health reasons, you are not able to sit down and chomp down 1 kg of it in one sitting… It is nothing like what you find in snickers or milky way bars. It is for the most part pure cocoa or pretty close to it and those “fats”found in dark chocolate are essential to the development and maintenance of the human body just as lipids play a roll in proper nutrition as well as natures antibiotics and people turn their noses up at like garlic or onion or chile.

miso soup is effing delicious! So is sushi. 🙂

Don.t be a smart as s, some people need help or may not be computer savvy

a negro is a negro you don’t like it too bad idiot.

Oh… horrors !!! Did you actually mean to say “Indian” food…..racist !!!! (joking)

I knew a now-retired health food store owner who swore by organic apple cider vinegar. He seemed pretty healthy.

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My friend has been hospitalized with three bouts of cdiff. Your list is invaluable and much appreciated, thank you! Of course all the Drs and hospital are saying is to go home and eat yogurt and take a probiotic supplement. I knew there had to be more she can do, thanks for the help!

i agree brigadier, but above you were being very separative politically in what came off as a ‘fed up with liberal’ stance. There is evil in both Democrat and Republican, as well as good people under both. We are all human. However, is it not true that Monsanto is headed by Republican corporate big wigs – – the same whom also control the majority of the FDA?

(I’m not trying to sound smart allecky, I may have been misinformed)

cheers.

There is nothing wrong with asking someone who makes a claim to be able to back up said claim with some sort of evidence. That’s how science works, friend.

sorry but how can you insist that saturated fat is not harmful. I totally agree that we should avoid consuming foods that are high in saturated fats. Eating a diet that is high in saturated fat can raise the level of cholesterol in the blood. Having high cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease. Do you think it normal?

Most people know it as playing the race card, or the gender card. I for one am sick of it as we now see on it daily basis. They try and marginalize to silence people and I for one will not be silenced by all those mental lightweights who try and portray themselves as victims in order to win a argument they can’t win by any other means.

I have the flu and wanted to look up probiotics. I just wanted to know if jar pickles are sufficient. Then I read all this comical angry conversation about racism…….does anyone know about the pickles?

Hi Sherry and Annabelle,

For optimum nutrients and health benefits, you will want to get organic pickles. The fermentation process, and probiotics are said to break down pesticides. Personally, i’m not entirely sure how many different pesticides there are, or how liberally they are used geographically.

Cucumbers (Pickles) have high levels of pesticides. Below excerpt sourced from net:

“Out of all cucumbers tested, 45.3 percent of them contained Endosulfan, a chemical the U.S. EPA has been trying to ban since 2010. The Pesticide Action Network explains that endosulfan can cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, seizures, and in higher levels — unconsciousness and death.

Pesticide Count: The USDA found 35 pesticides in cucumbers.

Health Effect Breakdown:
9 are known or probable carcinogens
25 are suspected hormone disruptors
12 are neurotoxins
9 are developmental or reproductive toxins

Environmental toxins:
16 of these affect honeybees”

Hope this helps 🙂

How on God’s green Earth is the word Orientals offensive? I’m going to guess it was created by Asians. Next thing you know all the races will decide to get upset about the names they are being called now and want to change them, AGAIN. Why are so many people obsessed with ethnicity? Why can’t people just be PEOPLE instead lf everyone crying, racism, racism!

I would really like to see a list of the best yoghurt brands with their probiotic rating.

they said DARK CHOCOLATE, dark chocolate, as in cocoa actually does have health benefits, its just the processed sugary milk chocolates that you get from say cadbury are what are bad for you. Oraganic dark chocolate, can be beneficial, I obviously would not recommend eating a full bar of it, but if you ever feel like a treat, go for dark choc because it’s not as bad for you as you think. Infact it’s very quite sour.

I’ve just been diagnosed with SIBO, whats the best intake of probiotics i can take, I’m also lactose sensitive and type 1 diabetic.

Who mentioned white people? I smell bigotry under the diguise of ma freedum…MURIKKA!

what about your ad hominem attacks? they are all over the place. indeed, you appear to play the victim quite often, subjected to “liberals” who you believe are ruining your life and country. you made an immediate assumption that anyone who points out your INCORRECT word usage is a liberal. your nastiness and assumptions are what started this conflict. oriental refers to things, asian refers to people. all my most conservative friends and family know that, even the FOX devotees. even my Brigadier father. where you been? by the way, i’m a publisher and a LOT of crap books make it out there. and anyone who throws out an IQ number as proof of anything is a social imbecile. no one is impressed. oh yeah, 20,000 books. if you were 80 years old and could read from birth, that would be 250 books a year. give me a break with the hyperbole.

Brigadier, sir; I have read your comments and I am very impressed with what you have to say. To me, what you say makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the information you shared. Just wanted to mention that I am Asian and take no offense to the Oriental remarks. I think some have made them to be like wow!?, pivotal in hearing what you really want to share.
I am and have been a life-long Dem, and take no offense to anything you’ve said as being politically offensive in anyway; I get what you’re saying and agree whole heartedly.
Again, my thanks for your very valuable information.

You’re a racist low life. End of story. Your life is spent being a keyboard warrior in random threads. You can’t accept that the world doesn’t revolve around you and that makes your pathetic self butt hurt.

Negro is nothing more than the Latin (Spanish) translation of black. I am a part of a miniscule minority (I may very well be the only one!) who loathes being referred to as ‘black’. As a centuries-old ubiquitous label that I myself used until the past few years, I stop well short of being offended with the term however.

The label “black” is a major contributor to the negative stigma attached to Americans (and other nationalities) of African descent worldwide. Not only is it descriptively illogical (my skin is not black it is brown, and many other “blacks” are tan, white, etc.) it is representative of all things negative concerning life in general. These things are too numerous to discus in this post and it would take a lifetime to realize and 99% of human beings never will.

Are there some very dark brown people in Africa? Yes. What are they? Are they Zimbabwean, Kenyan, Monrovian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Sudanese, etc., etc., etc.?

Instead of being given an identity such as a Dane, Greek, Italian, German, Spaniard, Scot or any other number of European nationalities, Americans of African descent are simply called “black”. If I must be referred to by the color of my skin, why not call it as it actually is? You don’t call a green light pole orange do you?

After taking oral antibiotics for a bone infection..Osteomyelitis..it gave me severe acne that i’ve never had before..Gabapetin also had reported acne side effects..as a 45 year old male..this is really hard to deal with since it’s never happened before..so I’m very sure that was the cause of this acne blowout..I have used natural masks, honey/lemon/baking soda.and so far has been helping..but the acne still persists..both surface and cystic..can probiotics like cider vinegar help..besides the other foods listed..I really need help and NOT from a dermatologist who’ll only prescribe antibiotics or creams that will only drain the wallet and NOT stop the cause..as per usual of Western medicine.

Thank you for you food post!!! You put a lot of time into your “iodine” crusade! Know that this occidental girls got your back and as concerned about my being forcibly fed chemicals/minerals that I never signed on for! That I never approved! And that I had no idea about! I have the right to be informed! And I also have the right to many varying choices! Those choices are very limited in the food world as it costs more money to get food without anything wrong with it as opposed to getting food with all the additives…or unknown changes!

Pickled also includes that which is soaked in Brine. You can get pickles that have gone through a brine process instead of a vinegar one.

This is talking about the stuff that you buy in food stores though

It’s a pity the “indoctrinated leftists” don’t make up 60% of the nation considering the “indoctrinated rightists” are slowly destroying the constitution of the USA. But people like Governor Brownstain of Kansas are working hard to convert many tea bag sucking Repthuglians into “indoctrinated leftists” by attacking the average guy, gutting education and practicing the “trickle down” theory of disastrous economics.

Prison for what, tea bag sucker? Name the crime so we can all laugh at you.

This is a conversation about food and health, not a trolling opportunity for people who spend their lives on disqus hating on people.

The previous comment has some value as a perspective, but so long as the skin is free of pesticides, I don’t care what color it is, or how its described.

Blackcurrants arent black either and I’m a bluey not white. But none of it has anything do do with fermented foods.

So shush.

Ive read this is the only form of vinegar one should eat. All other forms should be avoided.
What does this mean for jars of pickles?

thats all great but what do you give a preschooler? They bloat too. Ive cut out yogurt because of milk so what else is there?

Apparently it is not racist. In North American English it is considered not politically correct. Lets remember that the internet is not limited to your country. However, Asia is a large continent and in British English an Asian refers to people from Central Asia while “Oriental” refers to East Asia. “Negro”, while it translates to the color “black” in Spanish, has a racist association in most languages but it can also be a term of affection, like “honey” or “sweetie”.

Oriental should refer to objects, such as rugs, or art – NOT people. So yes, it is offensive. You’re either openly racist, or just stupid and ignorant. YOU are what America needs to cleanse itself of.

Dark chocolate is a very potent anti-oxidant. Not quite as high as pomegranate juice, but still its much higher than many others. A friend of mine who is also my doctor is a homeopath. He tells everyone that free radicals are the source of all disease in the body and the best preventative is to load up on anti-oxidants 24/7. He does and in five years I have never seen him sick.

Take a half teaspoon of ground cinnamon twice a day along with a good soluble iodine source like dried kelp and you can say goodbye to your diabetes. They are even selling cinnamon capsules in drugstores, but buy the cinammom veritas from your supermarket and that is the real Latin spelling of it, and save yourself some money.

Wow, I was hoping to read through the comments to find more probiotic rich foods to throw into my diet or other nutritional foods beneficial to my digestive system or pH balance. Instead, I’m finding politics this and racism that and White People this and America that and so so so much hate. Why can’t people JUST stick to the damn topic and keep their political or civil agendas to themselves and save em for a more relatable article?

Come on, folks.

I suggest you read The Great Cholesterol Myth and also Good Calories/Bad Calories. Saturated fat, which is mostly made by your liver is necessary for cell health, including brain health. The anti real fat idea was started by Ansel Keys and his seven country study. However, he had reliable information for 22 countries. He cherrie picked his countries to prove his ideas. If you include all 22 countries, sugar and lack of exercise become the real villains.
Another man by the name of John Yutkin pointed out the problems with Keys research. Yutkin wrote a book about sugar called Pure, White and deadly. Needless to say, Big Sugar, who invented a lot of the tactics used by big tobacco, put a lot of money into backing Keys.
Saturated fat is the bandage that it put over the inflammation caused by sugar. It is not the source of the damage. However, there are different sizes of lipoproteins. Saturated fat in the diet increases the size of these. These are the safe, harmless lipoproteins. Sugar in the diet decreases the size of lipoproteins. These are the ones that help clog your arteries. Your trig numbers tell you which you likely have. The higher the trig numbers, the smaller the lipoproteins.
A interesting note: 1/2 the people which have heart attacks or strokes have normal or low cholesterol levels. The other half have high. Having a problem seeing which is worse. However your chance of dying from infection or cancer is much higher if you have low cholesterol levels.
Here is hoping that you have high cholesterol, full of big fat lipoproteins and low trig levels. That will give you the chance for the longest life.

Is Miso Soup an “Oriental” or “Asian” soup? i am so confused and need polotical correctness. I am glad I came here to find out about Probiotics and incorrectness in politics all in one read. Talk about multi-tasking…

this is a good website 🙂

Anyone who makes rugs in the Orient, dolt. So no, not Mexicans. Here’s a free geography lesson: Mexico is not part of the Orient.

Hi there. Dr. Edward Group DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM
My stomach is sensitive to fructans. I wanna know that could these probiotics be helpful for me?

“Don’t forget to get your 180 units of iodine every day. It is also a powerful preventative against a whole host of cancers.”

Eating the diet that God & Mother designed humans and animals to eat is by far the biggest prevention for chronic, deadly diseases such as cancer.

The S.A.D, Standard American Diet is so nutrient deficient that it allows diseases like cancer to invade our bodies because our immune systems are weakened by this diet and devastated by all chemical based pharmaceuticals that many people take every day.

80% of our immune system are in our “gut”.

Chemical based pharmaceuticals destroy most/all of the good gut bacteria that our bodies need to process the foods that we eat and to keep our immune systems healthy, strong and able to do their jobs..

It is only our bodies immune system that has the ability to prevent and cure illness and diseases like cancer.

Orientals?? Are you kidding…

NOTE # All pasteurized foods have been sterilized for longer shelf life because of greedy profit and no longer contain any beneficial bacteria, This stuff should be labeled as a food bi-product being unfit even to use as animal feed. Indeed some countries are beginning to ban these counterfeit substitutes outright. It makes one wonder who is paying off the F.D.A. to allow this dangerous practice..

thanks for the list of foods!!

As a vegan I choose not to eat yogurt or have kefir. Can you suggest something vegan in replacement for those please ?

The article never said chocolate is a probiotic source. It rather states that it carries probiotic safely through the extreme PHs of the digestive track.

I found a probiotic with 2 billion cultures that comes in small squares of chocolate. Called Nature’s Bounty. It was in the pharmacy at Walmart. Easy to take.

WTF? Are you Oriental or something?

Tempeh is NOT a source if B12 and this is dangerous information to spread especially for vegans or vegetarians who will think that by eating tempeh they are getting B12. Please read Sally Pacholok’s book ‘Could it be B12?’. Tempeh contains the B12 analogue which actually blocks absorption of the B12 that we need. Please correct this error as soon as possible. Misinformation like this leads to sick vegans and vegetarians.

cholesterol has been paying the blame for the harm that is really made by sugar and carbs….cholesterol actually is found in areas that have been damaged by sugar and trying to “patch” them….but the sugar industry was very clever on diverting the blame to fat…..blaming cholesterol for disese is like the police arresting a citizen passing by the site of a crime just because he has a long face