I'm Molly the princess of fog, and today I'm going to talk about fermented vegetables, home fermented vegetables, organic fermented vegetables, and DIY fermented vegetables.
Fermented vegetables are vegetables that are fermented, and so far we have.
Now some of you will want to know from me what fermentation consists of, I'll explain it now, it's very simple, I take a look a moment on wikipedia and I'll be back.
So lactic fermentation, malolactic fermentation, alcoholic fermentation, heterolactic fermentation, acetic fermentation, homolactic fermentation...uuhmmm odd God I'm confused! Couldn't I have been assigned the article on balls of wool? Uff!
So let's say this: eat the fermented vegetables that are good for you and are good for you.
And then I liked the vegetables already natural, then the cat chef discovered that those fermented are even better for the body and now occasionally inserts them in the delicious recipes that he prepares for us cats.
In any case, I can only tell you that the cat chef has explained something more or less like this: Apparently, fermentation is a spontaneous process. You leave some vegetables or other foods there at a certain "ambient" temperature and they somehow ferment after a while. Actually, after Pasteur's discoveries, it became clear that this fermentation process takes place through a great many little beings invisible to the naked eye: microscopic microorganisms such as bacteria and yeasts. Thanks to the presence of a certain type of enzymes, these creatures transform certain substances contained in food, mainly sugary ones, and this transformation produces acids, alcohol and aromatic substances.
All this mysterious process changes the substance and consistency and sometimes even the shape of the initial food and with this change also the nutritional characteristics of the same. A bit like in fermented and then matured cheeses, which from the initial liquid milk are transformed into fermented or thickened milk, which, once matured, changes appearance even becoming a solid form and acquiring other nutritional properties that the milk, alone, did not have.
So, more or less the same thing happens with raw fermented vegetables.
But then he also explained to me why fermented vegetables are good for you.
Apparently, the fermentation process produces other invisible beings and microorganisms that are useful to the immune system because they balance the intestinal flora.
He also told me that the intestine is not only a long tangled tube that transforms food but also a kind of second brain that houses more or less 85% of our immune system and that within it live 100 trillion (my god taaanti!) of other invisible beings, 10 times the cells of our body! Which are divided into good and bad and always in war between factions. And we must do everything to help the good ones who stimulate the production of immunoglobulins (IgA) and strengthen the immune defense of our body.
Let's not underestimate the fact that serotonin is also produced in our intestines and if we produce very little of it... we feel sad and troubled.
Among other things, a study published in the journal Psychiatry Research would show that the regular intake of fermented vegetables relieves anxiety and neurosis of everyday life (here the source).
In essence, by telling me all these things, the cat chef made me understand that it is quite useless to protect ourselves from all diseases (and there are so many now affecting the feline world as the human one) if we neglect, before protecting, our natural barrier to those diseases.
Apparently they too, human beings are not doing well, and they have lost much of the microbial biodiversity they once had, they too do nothing but swallow junk food, fashionable recipes that have less and less genuine ... The intestinal bacteria seem to be very sensitive to medicines (especially antibiotics ... the same word should make you think anti-bio anti life ...), then to chlorinated water (and all water unfortunately contains chlorine as a disinfectant), chemical products for agriculture (here there is little to say ... exult the multinationals and we die cats and you humans), pollution (it is now everywhere and you can also say that, in your opinion, are exaggerated alarmism, but meanwhile you get sick and we get sick anyway) and preservatives and chemical additives added in industrial foods (and for us cats to wet food is also added to the other problem of dry food with which we feed, rich in carbohydrates and starches that in our intestines we do not know how to manage).
So what to do? Preventing all this is now impossible, if not after a global awareness, the road is long but our sixth sense whispers to us to be optimistic and to trust in the fact that sooner or later you realize that
"continuation follows."