boosting yogurt with probiotic pills

[SimonFerments]

anyone ever tried that ?

i'm about to try it, and seeing how slow these forums are, i guess my questions won't be answer before i post my results, but i was wondering if ppl tried it, what were the results, and if they thought it was safe.

i'll post my results.

[bachcole]

Dear SimonFerments, Please save yourself a lot of money. Good kefir will blow your pills and even homemade yogurt out of the water without any trouble whatsoever. One of your probiotic pills will have something like 8 billion wigglers in it, of limited variety. A 1/4 cup of kefir will have a trillion wigglers of more than 30 to 54 different species, depending upon whether you believe Marilyn Kefirlady or Dom.

I did yogurt for decades. Kefir is much cheaper, much simpler, and much more healthy.

I was also a pill popper for decades. I put a lot of people through college buying all of those pills. I had a box of pills to take every day. And frankly, it didn't even come close to the benefits that I can feel with paleo and fermented.

The pill popping is partialistic or fractional thinking, rather than holistic thinking. I even did the partialistic thinking when I knew it sucked, so don't take my observations as a criticism. My pill taking has dropped dramatically since I went paleo and more recently fermented. You are still going to need Vitamin D, but I even take fewer Vita. D because of my taking cod liver oil. Now, I take very few pills. It used to be dangerous for me to down all of my pills at once; now I look into the little pill jar and wonder where all the pills went.

Once you get started with kefir, and you treat your grains right, you will never have to spend another cent on dairy fermentation, and it will be much healthier than yogurt or any pills.

Roger

[Micromaniac]

I was making a fermented milk drink with aloe vera (the aloe vera drink contained fructose) and Lactobacillus Acidophilus and Casei which I bought from the store. The milk fermented but it seperated into liquid and solids, and the fructose fermentation was super slow. So I decided to trow a probiotic pill in there which contained Lactobacillus plantarum, two Bifidobacteria strains and Streptococcus Thermophilus. The next batch turned out very well, it seperated in the first two days (also faster fermentation) but on the third day it turned into a yoghurt drink and the fructose disappeared much faster.

I wasnt making yoghurt at first but now I am.

[SimonFerments]

thanks for your reply, the both of you.

the probiotic pills i had were given to me by my mother, i personnally don't buy any pills. i have a pretty thorough understanding of the nutritional needs and i've been getting most of what i need from veggies, fruits, ferments and soy products. i understand what you mean, but i wanted to try.

i ended up doing it anyway, and it turned out some of the best yogurt i've had in a while 3/4 times. the last batch i did turned weird, but it was due to something else entirely.

i agree with kefir. i might even add some kefir to start the yogurt fermentation in a near future.

Simon