The fermented food intake was initially not seen as beneficial to health . But the food , which is processed by settling for a few days or weeks before consuming it , turned out to be a new source of health .
In America , today's vegetables and fermented kombucha drinks healthy food is becoming a trend . Kombucha is a fermented tea drink frothy long been known in China .
This trend is also supported by the benefits based on the results of the research . Last week researchers from Cambridge University reported that regular consumption of low-fat dairy products fermented , such as yoghurt , fromage frais and cottage cheese , can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by 25 percent over a period of more than 11 years .
Fromage frais is fresh soft cheese made from unpasteurized milk and some cream to use . Although soft , very sharp flavor fromage frais . While blue cheese blue cheese is is due to the growth of bacteria and fungus in it . Blue cheese is made from sheep's milk and fermented bacteria Penicilium roqueforti .
In the fermentation process , microbes first consume food rather than humans . The bacteria then break down sugars , starches , and causes nutrients more easily absorbed by the body . The existence of this process can be seen from the number of yeast found in fermented foods .