Home made Yogurt, Sauerkraut, Kefir – Russian Roulette Anyone?

All of these products are prone to wild variation of bacteria in it. So if you are trying to do targeted changes, you are tossing a hand grenade into the room. If you are wanting to do random experiments because someone said it helped them (or often believe it may help and are still waiting– and believing), then that’s fine. Some people win the lottery…

Here’s a partial listing of the reported variety of bacteria found…

Home made yogurt may contain [2021]
- Sphingomonas,
- Burkholderia,
- Lactobacillus,
- Lactococcus,
- Staphylococcus
Traditional fermented dairy products [2011]
- Enterococcus faecalis,
- Enterococcus durans,
- Lactobacillus brevis,
- Lactobacillus buchneri,
- Lactobacillus casei,
- Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus,
- Lactobacillus diolivorans,
- Lactobacillus fermentum,
- Lactobacillus helveticus,
- Lactobacillus kefiri,
- Lactobacillus plantarum ssp. plantarum,
- Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis,
- Leuconostoc lactis,
- Leuconostoc mesenteroides,
- Streptococcus thermophilus,
- Weissella cibaria.
Turkish traditional fermented foods [2023]
- Lactiplantibacillus pentosus,
- Lactiplantibacillus plantarum,
- Enterococcus lactis,
- Enterococcus durans,
- Enterococcus faecalis.
Traditional Iranian Fermented Food [2018]
- Lactobacillus fermentum,
- Lactobacillus plantarum,
- Lactobacillus brevis
- Weissella cibaria,
- Enterococcus faecium
- Enterococcus faecalis),
- Leuconostoc citreum
- Leuconostoc mesenteroides
- Pediococcus pentosaceus.
Spontaneous curly kale (Brassica oleracea var. sabellica) fermentation [2018]
- Lactobacillus plantarum
- Lactobacillus paraplantarum
- Lactobacillus brevis,
- Lactobacillus curvatus
- Weissella hellenica
- Weissella cibaria
- Pediococcus pentosaceus
- Pediococcus acidilactici
- Leuconostoc mesenteroides
- Lactococcus lactis.
Fermented curly kale juice [2021]
- Leuconostoc mesenteroides
- Lactobacillus plantarum,
- Lactobacillus sakei,
- Lactobacillus coryniformis
Brazilian kefir grains
- Lactococcus,
- Leuconostoc,
- Lactobacillus
- Oenococcus
Traditional milk kefir [2022]
- Kluyveromyces marxianus,
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae,
- Pichia fermentans
- Pichia kudriavzevii.
- From [2014]
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae,
- Saccharomyces unisporus,
- Issatchenkia occidentalis
- Kluyveromyces marxianus
Sauerkraut [2022]… “A total of 220 LAB strains, corresponding to 133 RAPD-PCR biotypes, were successfully isolated. “