The Preferred Choice
When you shop for probiotics, you have many choices. You can get your probiotics from foods, like certain yogurts, or from supplements that typically come in the form of pills or powders. There are several reasons why probiotic foods are the preferred choice for getting probiotic bacteria:
- Probiotic foods can buffer stomach acids and increase the chance that the probiotics will survive passage through the human gut.
- Fermented foods that contain probiotics, like certain yogurts, can be a source of nutrients needed for good health such as calcium, protein, and potassium.
- Probiotic supplements in the form of pills don’t usually provide nutrients that some cultures produce during fermentation.
- Some individuals have trouble swallowing or just don’t like pills, but yogurt, for example, is easy and enjoyable to consume.