Olive My Pickle Blog — Fermentation

Your Top 7 Questions About Lacto Fermentation, Answered
We get a lot of questions about our process. Here’s the Top 7 list of the basic questions we get about the process, its results and fermented pickles.
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How Are Probiotics Created During Fermentation? We Break It Down
Lacto-fermentation is a unique food preservation process not only because of the delicious tasting results, but also because of the probiotics that are naturally created in the fermentation process. What basically happens when the lid goes on and the bubbling starts?
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What Is Fermentation? Here's a Glossary of Important Terms
An ever growing list of common terms, words and ideas having to do with fermentation, probiotics and microbiome health.
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How Do You Measure the Probiotics in the Pickles?
Whole food probiotic intake is a critical component of maintaining a healthy and diverse gut microbiome. Learn how we test our products for probiotics and why it matters.
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Why Did My Pickle Batch Fail? Four Things That Will Make or Break Your Ferment
A batch of fermented vegetables relies upon four core variables for success. These fermentation process fundamentals must be in place for your ferment to deliver on flavor, texture, composition, and most important, edibility.
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