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Mayo Clinic Minute: What is kefir?
Sarra Sedghi has over 10 years of experience as a food writer. She writes about cooking restaurants and food culture as well as travel design and lifestyle.
Kefir not quite milk but not quite yogurt is taking up more and more space in grocery store refrigerators because of its health benefits. But if kefir isn’t milk or yogurt what is it and why is it so good for you? We explain what you need to know about kefir including what it’s made of what makes it good for you the similarities and differences between kefir and yogurt and how to use kefir in cooking.
Kefir is a drink made from fermented milk and kefir grains. Despite their nomenclature kefir grains are actually cultures or collections of bacteria and yeast and when fermented with milk they are an excellent source of probiotics such as Lactobacillus acidophilus Bifidobacterium bifidum Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Lactobacillus helveticus.
