Milk Kefir Grains

Milk Kefir is a wonderfully delicious slightly carbonated fermented milk beverage similar to yogurt. Kefir is simply milk that is fermented at room temperature with kefir grains for about 24 hours. It has many wonderful health benefits, a great flavour and is also usually tolerated well by the lactose intolerant. It's much easier to make than yogurt - no heating or incubating involved, and kefir has a much larger spectrum of probiotics than yogurt. The reusable, sustainable grains also make it more economical.

Kefir has gained in popularity lately, due to interest in eating more responsibly and locally, as well as more economically, combined with a greater awareness of the health benefits of probiotics from cultures and whole foods.

But with that popularity has come a load of misinformation and deceiving products on the web. Authentic kefir can only be made by real kefir grains, not from any kind of packet or powder or incubating store bought kefir.

Milk Kefir originated roughly 2,000 years ago in the Caucasian Mountains between Europe and Russia, which makes kefir one of the oldest milk ferments in existence.

You will receive a heaped teaspoon of milk kefir grains which is sufficient to kefir one cup of full cream milk initially.   Your grains will multiply and as they multiply you will be able to make larger amounts of milk kefir.