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You use them over and over. Reactivating frozen water kefir grains.
You can also use coconut water for a less sweet more fizzy beverage.
Can you eat water kefir grains. How to use water kefir grains making water kefir is one of the easiest most cost effective ways to get tons of live probiotics to your gut. Water kefir grains are actually little cultures of good bacteria that eat prebiotic sugars creating live probiotics and enzymes that are essential for gut health. You use them over and over.
Sometimes well water can have some interesting things in it or too much iron but most will generally provide good water for your water kefir grains. If you are concerned about harming the grains have your well water tested for contaminants or compare to store bough spring or mineral water. Yes water kefir grains are reusable.
Once a batch of water kefir is finished culturing simply remove the water kefir grains and place them in fresh sugar water juice or coconut water. Although reusable it is not advisable to use your only set of grains in juice coconut water as this can be very hard on them. You can also use coconut water for a less sweet more fizzy beverage.
The kefir grains feed on the sugar and minerals in the water and naturally ferment it to become tart and fizzy. True health starts in the gut and kefir both water and milk is a great way to get those beneficial yeasts and bacteria into our system. Even though you need milk kefir grains to culture milk and water kefir grains to culture sugar water the resultant beverage has a similar probiotic mix.
They both have many strains of bacteria and yeast that exist in a perfect balance. So as i was saying mine go crazy and so do others it is a common question among enthusiasts on what to do with extra water kefir grains. Especially when it gets warm and they process in less than 48 hours.
For those who don t know. When you feed these grains they grow or more like reproduce like crazy. You can also do a rinse and rest where you gently rinse grains in filtered water no chlorine chloramine fluoride put them in sugar water and let them sit in the fridge a week.
This is a last ditch effort to save grains that have been struggling it s not meant to be a first avenue of remediation. What to feed water kefir grains. As i shown earlier on this page water kefir grains can be fed almost anything that contains sugar.
However not all sugars will make them grow and multiply properly. In order to make the grains grow you need to feed them properly at the first fermentation. Any water molecules that remain will expand once frozen which may damage the microorganism in the kefir grains.
Once dry place the grains in a clean container that can be sealed preferably in a ziplock plastic bag or a glass jar with a lid. Place the jar in the freezer at temperatures between 0 to 25 f. Reactivating frozen water kefir grains.
If you re the type that loves to eat salad then you can chop up your extra kefir grains and sprinkle them over a salad. It s a great way to help your stomach to digest the vegetables in the salad. Kefir grains are best when consumed fresh so if you plan on adding them to a salad you may want to store the grains in the fridge until you re.