13 Prebiotic Foods To Improve Gut Health
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Do you want the to be happy?
Yes, probiotics need to eat, too!
If you feed them, they will grow happier. And your gut ecosystem will be healthier. People with issues of constipation often see complete relief just by adding in prebiotics.
What are prebiotics? Are they a pill?
Prebiotics are food for probiotics!
And yes, they can be in pill form, however I prefer whole food prebiotic sources. (Prebiotic supplements can even cause constipation.)
Here are 13 real food prebiotic foods to make your gut (and your entire body) healthier! As you may know,
For overall wellness, let's embrace prebiotics into our daily diets.
1. Onions and Leeks
Lightly cooked onions and leeks are full of prebiotics. The probiotics in your colon consume the prebiotics and, as a result, produce butyrate. Butyrate is a short chain fatty acid that is food for T cells. T cells fight pathogens and inflammation! They also strengthen the immune system. The more prebiotics, the more T cells!
Don't overcook onions or leeks. The longer they cook, the fewer prebiotics they contain.
2. Jerusalem Artichokes (a.k.a. Sunchokes)
These are yummy! Have you tried them yet? Most natural food stores carry them, sometimes sitting in a bit of water to keep them fresh.
Eat them raw, sauté or roast them, or simmer them in bone broth and purée them into a soup base! They taste like a cross between potato and artichoke.
For the greatest quantity of prebiotics, ferment or eat them raw.
3. Chicory
Yes, you can make and get prebiotics! Try blending with coffee grounds before brewing — New Orleans style.
4. Sorghum
With prebiotic qualities that increase when heated, sorghum is a gluten-free grain that's excellent for baking.
Try for an easy way to add prebiotics to your diet. They're easy to digest (thank you, sourdough!), and good for your gut health (thank you, sorghum!).
5. Dandelion Leaf
Add to your soups and stews to conveniently make them prebiotic. It's important to add the dandelion at the end to preserve more of its prebiotic qualities.
And see my to learn how to incorporate other lesser-used, nutrient-dense herbs in cooking!
6. Garlic
Are you ready for one more quality we can attribute to this superfood?
It's prebiotic!
Add it to your soups and stews — also at the end of cooking — for a prebiotic boost.
7. Fermented Asparagus
Raw asparagus contains a significant amount of prebiotics, some of which are lost with cooking. But raw asparagus can be hard to digest.
The solution? Ferment it. The nutrition in these spears will multiply and the prebiotics will remain intact. And, by eating a fermented prebiotic food, you're consuming both PRObiotics and PREbiotics at once. Bonus!
(Find 6 exciting fermented asparagus recipes in this post! Just in time for spring!)
8. Green Bananas And Plantains
These prebiotic foods contain . Yet when cooked or fully ripened, this resistant starch vanishes, leaving bananas and plantains no longer prebiotic.
9. Cassava Flour
when cooked and cooled, contains a different kind of resistant starch — called RS3.
I love making muffins with cassava flour. Here's my , and a both of which contain prebiotics.
10. Cooked And Cooled Potatoes
These goodies are one of the best sources of resistant starch. As with cassava, the RS3 starch forms when the veggie cools.
Potatoes can even be reheated again and still retain their prebiotics.
and my are great ways to enjoy them.
11. Cooked And Cooled Rice
Who knew white rice was a health food? Even when stripped of its bran and neither soured or sprouted, white rice has health benefits to offer.
Cooked and cooled rice offers a world of creativity: (just substitute white rice for brown)… The list goes on. Cooked rice, like potatoes, keeps its prebiotics even when reheated. It also contains RS3 starch.
Dive into cooked and cooled white rice and enjoy the prebiotic benefits!
12. Cooked And Cooled Beans
Beans, like rice, are cooked and cooled to obtain RS3, a retrograded starch that remains even when reheated. Make sure to though!
Bean salad, reheated refried beans, and bean soup leftovers are all wonderful ways to incorporate more prebiotic beans into one's diet.
13. Apple Cider Vinegar
not only has prebiotics from the pectin it contains, it classifies as a bonus prebiotic (in my book) because it assists the conversion of resistant starch to butyric acid, or butyrate.
Therefore, eating any resistant starch food with apple cider vinegar, (such as German potato salad), only benefits the process of feeding your good gut flora.
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