Nutritional Information

Good choice! Kefir is full of amazing nutrients and probiotics that are excellent news for your gut. The latest lab results are for our Plain Yest-Free Kefir. For the flavoured options, we have calculated the values using the nutritional specifications of the fruit flavours we use.

Remember that as kefir ferments, the cultures are ‘eating’ the lactose sugar in the milk. This means that the sugar (lactose) content is constantly reducing. When kefir reaches its peak, it may have used almost all the lactose.

Most importantly, you want to know what the probiotic count is.

Probiotics are counted in ‘colony forming units’ (CFUs). In kefir, the probiotic load changes over time. As the culture ferments, the CFUs increase. The use-by date is the end of the optimal availability after that, the numbers of CFUs lessen considerably.

We sent our kefir to be tested for probiotic load, and the results were exciting. The good bacteria count was 1,6 billion CFU/g of kefir. By the expiry date, it had reduced to 0,9 billion CFU/g. This suggests that a 300ml bottle of kefir has about 480 billion CFUs. That’s a lot of good guys fighting for your health!