Chemical and therapeutic aspects of Kefir

Abstract

Kefir is a probiotic food. Probiotics have shown to be beneficial to health, being presently of great interest to the food industry. Kefir grains are an example of symbiosis between yeast and bacteria. They have been used over years to produce kefir beverages from milk, whey, sugar solution and fruit juices, that is consumed all over the world, although its origin is Caucasian.