Extract taken from: Farnworth, E. R. (2006) Kefir – A Complex Probiotic. Food Science and Technology Bulletin: Functional Foods, Volume 2, Issue 1, (An online, peer-reviewed journal hosted on www.foodsciencecentral.com.)
Health benefits of kefir
Kefir has had a long history of being beneficial to health in Eastern European countries, where it is associated with general wellbeing. It is easily digested (Alm 1982c) and is often the first weaning food received by babies. Many of the studies regarding health benefits of kefir have been published in Russian and Eastern European journals and therefore are not easily accessible to Western science (Batinkov 1971; Ormisson and Soo 1976; Evenshtein 1978; Safonova et al. 1979; Ivanova et al. 1981; Sukhov et al. 1986; Besednova et al. 1997; Oleinichenko et al. 1999). However, the health benefits of kefir were demonstrated in Canada as early as 1932 (Rosell 1932).
Health benefits of kefir
Kefir has had a long history of being beneficial to health in Eastern European countries, where it is associated with general wellbeing. It is easily digested (Alm 1982c) and is often the first weaning food received by babies. Many of the studies regarding health benefits of kefir have been published in Russian and Eastern European journals and therefore are not easily accessible to Western science (Batinkov 1971; Ormisson and Soo 1976; Evenshtein 1978; Safonova et al. 1979; Ivanova et al. 1981; Sukhov et al. 1986; Besednova et al. 1997; Oleinichenko et al. 1999). However, the health benefits of kefir were demonstrated in Canada as early as 1932 (Rosell 1932).
