Healthy Food Choices for Probiotics

Yogurt, soy products, and some juices are excellent choices for healthy probiotics. Learn about choosing your own probiotics in this video.

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Alice Merritt is currently the Campus Dietitian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has a masters degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in public health with a concentration on nutrition. Alice has worked as a registered dietician for four years, and believes that helping people reach their nutritional goals will lead to a long and healthy life.

ALICE MERRITT: Now I'm going to talk to you about probiotics. Probiotics are live microorganisms, are healthy bacteria that help promote a good, healthy, working intestinal tract. Healthy food choices for probiotics are things like yogurts, tofu, soy products, soy milk, miso, and you can also get probiotics in dietary supplements. Probiotics are thought to promote overall general wellness and they also help outgrow unhealthy bacteria in our intestines. So things like yeast are bacteria that may be disease-causing or inflammation-causing. These healthy bacteria eat all of the things and the other bacteria kind of die and go away. So important things to remember about probiotics is eat a variety of foods, things like yogurt, soy products, some juices also have probiotics added, or you could take a dietary supplement. And remember that probiotics are healthy bacteria and so they actually decrease illness and decrease inflammation because they outlive the unhealthy bacteria. So add things, yogurt, into your daily diet to boost your probiotic intake. These are all healthy things when considering taking probiotics.

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