Recent content by RalphNaderFan

I have to agree. Although with the state of the cows in the commercial milk industry due to unbridled use of growth hormones and antibiotics it is a necessity to pasteurize the milk in large industries. The cows' utters are usually horribly infected with bacteria. Small farmers have healthy...

Further on kefir. I have also researched that adding the cultures after doesn't provide all the necessary bacteria our system needs. The only way to do that is to use whole, unpasteurized milk. This is the way kefir was originally made and continues to be made by many small makers and peoples...

So basically, making kefir with pasteurized milk is useless. You have to take the pasteurized milk, add the desired bacterial cultures, and then add the cultured/pasteurized milk to the kefir grains. That's the only way to get the benefits of the necessary "good" bacteria our digestive tract...