Help with keeping milk kefir grains alive

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Help with keeping milk kefir grains alive

Postby joannlakes on Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:45 am

Hi, I'm wfpb (whole foods plant based) and use non-dairy products. I would love some help on keeping kefir milk grains alive. I'm willing to let them bathe in whole milk if I have to. Also, any ideas for heirloom yogurt cultures?
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Re: Help with keeping milk kefir grains alive

Postby irie1029 on Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:55 pm

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http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/Makekefir.html
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Re: Help with keeping milk kefir grains alive

Postby dri on Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:56 pm

If you are trying to keep them alive and not use dairy, I've had milk-kefir grains fermenting water-based stuff at the office for over 9 months. They were happy to ferment fruit juice or water+sugar or water+sugar+fruit (I mixed it up depending on what is left over from meetings). I made a video of the grain at about 6 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EneTUFd-r0

About a month ago, after doing lots of reading, I learned that the bacteria that grow the grains can only make the grain from glucose and galactose, where fermenting milk lactose is converted to galactose. But there are other sources of galactose, e.g. honey has between 1.5 and 3%. So I've been feeding my grain on honey water (rather than sugar water) and I believe its growing. Not fast but then the grain had 8 months of non-growth so may take a while for lactobacillus kefiran to multiply to the point of making it grow.
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