21/06/2025
Fermented Pickles: Benefits Plus 8 Recipes
Pickles: you either love them or hate them.
Pickles are a crisp, satisfying food to snack on, adorn your charcuterie boards, or top your sandwiches, which have lots of probiotic benefits, depending on how they’re prepared!
You can buy pickles in your local grocery store, but keep in mind that those on the shelf are prepared differently than those in the refrigerator section. The ones on the shelf are pickled with vinegar, giving them a long shelf-life; refrigerated ones are prepared with a salt and water brine and undergo fermentation.
During this fermentation process, which can take 4-10 days, cucumbers will sit in the brine, and the starches and sugars convert into lactic acid by the bacteria lactobacilli, which makes pickles a great probiotic!
Because of this, fermented pickles have numerous health benefits, including the following six...
