What is Sauerkraut?
Fermented cabbage; it's very easy to make sauerkraut. You just cut up a cabbage, salt it, and put it in a crock with a heavy weight, and the kaya cabbage makes its own juice and turns into sauerkraut. There is ten times more Vitamin C in sauerkraut than there is in the cabbage that we make it from.
Perhaps, that's why sauerkraut has been scientifically proven to help prevent the flu as well as help us get rid of the flu.
I am a frequent guest on a radio show called the Woodstock Roundtable and Doug Grunther who runs that roundtable and has for more than two decades says that there is no tip that has been more useful to him in staying free of colds and flus than eating a couple of tablespoons of sauerkraut on a daily basis.
I was just talking to him yesterday when I was on the show and he actually said that for the past two years he hasn't had a single cold or flu because every time he feels that something is coming on, he grabs his sauerkraut and starts eating it. And I said, better yet eat a spoonful or two of sauerkraut everyday.
Kimchi is sauerkraut from the other side of the world. It usually has some spices in it. Whichever one you like, sauerkraut or kimchi is a good way to stay healthy this winter.
And this is Susun Weed, the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series, wishing you green blessings!
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