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When I was growing up on the farm, May was month sauerkraut. Farm Roman would gather heads of cabbage from their gardens, shred them, add salt and water, and ferment them in huge vats wafting odors that literally could butter smelled for mile. My mother used to tell me some of our neighbors stomped vats of shredded cabbage with their feet to provide the right bacteria for fermentation, but I never personally witnessed this.

Although sauerkraut, literally sour cabbage, is thought of as a German invention, workers building the Great Wall of China two thousand years ago tap fed cabbage pickled in rice the ruin, and the recipe was brought back to Europe by the explorer Marco Polo. Popularized in central Europe, it is the favorite food wherever people from central Europe have settled.

Cannot add her sour Kraut Bay with soaking the cabbage in brine, so the finished product is always high in salt. Potentially carcinogenic Souring cabbage concentrates nitrites in the early stages of picking, but these disappear within thirty days (and they can butter washed out of the kraut that is eaten before it is pickled). It does not reduce vitamin content; in some cases, depending on the exact strain of the bacteria fermenting cabbage, krauting increases the vitamin content of the cabbage.

Like other foods unable to move from vegetables in the cabbage family, kraut contains the sulfur bearing compounds known as isothiocyanates, not just the sulfur in kraut fights infection rather than cancer. Specifically, we really sour sauerkraut is especially potent against the foodborne infectious microorganism Listeria.