Increased nutrition foods with fermentation?

John Suavecito

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This is a question for Wardeh:

What foods increase their nutrition with fermentation? Someone told me that one fermented food, I think cabbage, increased it's vitamin C by 10 times after fermentation. Can you think of others or confirm this idea?
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All foods experience increased nutrition with fermentation. There are slight differences because each type of fermentation may use a different organism or organisms and the foods themselves are different.

I can confirm a huge increase in Vitamin C in sauerkraut!

Others...
incredible reduction in lactose when fermenting dairy
production of vitamin K2 when fermenting soy as in natto

--Wardeh ('Wardee') Harmon
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Author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fermenting Foods"

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