Naturally Inside Out becomes the Sole UK Reseller of The Probiotic Jar
Way back in August last year I wrote this post on the future of Naturally Inside Out and what I hoped it would encompass.
https://naturallyinsideout.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/naturally-inside-out-what-is-it-all-about/
The post details my business dreams and desires and in it I mentioned that 2 opportunities had come my way (both of which I followed/am following to fruition). The imminent one I am going to talk about today is “The Probiotic Jar”. One of my desires with Naturally Inside Out was to introduce slow/real food cooking workshops which I hoped would include sour dough breads, fermenting, sprouting and generally eating for health. I believe, without doubt, that eating nutrient dense foods for health is an unavoidable part of all of our futures. (I talk about nutrient density in modern fruit and vegetables here https://naturallyinsideout.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/5-fruit-and-veg-a-day-or-is-it-9-or-13/). It is a necessity of the future, due to depleted soils and over-use of chemicals and preservatives in our farming and overuse of antibiotics in our healthcare. This leaves us with a situation where, even if we eat well and look after our health we are, sadly, still unlikely to be getting enough vitamins and minerals to allow our bodies to thrive.
Gut Flora
More and more current research is revealing that 80%+ of our immune system is actually based in our gut. Maintaining that gut flora is essential to our health and in years gone by our ancestors would have incorporated fermented foods as part of their traditional food preparation and cultural practises. I won’t go into this at length in this post (or it will never end), but needless to say common eating habits of the modern world don’t lend themselves to eating probiotic foods.
Why Probiotic Foods and Why the Probiotic Jar?
What I discovered when I went looking for a vehicle to ferment in was that there are a lot of people advocating using any old jar and in the same breath, there are equally many people who are horrified by the idea of mould and removing it then still eating what is left! At the same time I couldn’t consider including fermenting foods in my future workshops, and ask people to incorporate eating probiotic foods daily, without finding a suitable vehicle to suit our modern lives and modern kitchens. Many internet searches later I discovered the Probiotic Jar (main site is here www.probioticjar.com) and enquired about the product. The result of this is Probiotic Jar UK which is launching within days, Naturally Inside Out being the sole UK Reseller.
Every bite of probiotic food contains trillions of living healthy probiotic microbes, usually in greater numbers than an entire bottle of high quality probiotic pills, which are dormant, and dried. In fact, there is much debate about whether or not the microbes in probiotic pills effectively survive stomach acids.
Using any old container you might have lying around to ferment foods may produce fermented foods, but this is ill advised, especially if the reason that you are interested in fermenting is to improve a health condition. The reason it is important to use a Probiotic Jar is because in a hermetically sealed anaerobic environment, the anaerobic health-nurturing cultures you desire are promoted, and the aerobic moulds and yeasts you must avoid are inhibited, in an environment that requires less salt. You also don’t want the potential to leach chemicals into your food from toxic container materials.
In any other system that is not hermetically sealing, forcing out oxygen, the numbers of probiotics in the finished food are far fewer, because the active yeasts and moulds limit their growth, and also lead to earlier spoilage of the food. For example, sauerkraut, even with an innoculant such as whey, rarely last without visible mould for more than five months in an open crock, and ours is still good in a Probiotic Jar after one year in 15.5ºC storage. That is true harvest to harvest preservation.
The Future Begins Now
Probiotic Foods and therefore The Probiotic Jar are an essential part in bringing together the natural tool kit for your future health. Naturally Inside Out looks forward to bringing this and other essential tools and information together for you on one handy platform and to showing you how easy it all can be to achieve.
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