Re: funny kefir microbe names

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What you want to learn about is " microflora " not " microbes. " Microbes are what

cause disease. Microflora are microscopic plants basically. The list you have

is not what is in Kefir. Some of them are just made up stuff. There is a way

the microflora are named. Please don't think I am trying to be mean. I am

fascinated by your posts and you raise a lot of good stuff to think about. My

daughter (a podiatric surgeon) has her undergraduate degree in Cellular

Molecular Biology so I used to hear a lot of those weird words. LOL

Lee Anne (lucky Mom of and )

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> Dear Kefir Krowd,

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> I am trying to change the subject by getting interested in the micro-guys in

the milk kefir grains. I am interested in this because I want to try to do

another fermented food that would increase even more the different kinds of the

microbes available.

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> Dom has one list that combines a list of the milk kefir grains and a list of

the sugary (water) kefir grains. I don't know why he combined the two lists.

So there is no way to tell from his list which is watery and which is sugary.

But there are 25 different microbes in the combined list.

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> There is another list below the 1st list that is just milk kefir grains, and

it has 56 microbes.

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> One would have to be a microbiologist to explain the discrepancy; I am not a

microbiologist. Suffice it to say that this is a very complicated matter. But

what is interesting and funny is some of the names for some of these microbes.

There are so many microbes in the world that it is no wonder that someone gave

them strange and funny names:

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> Lactobacillus casei subspecies tolerant

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> Lactobacillus fructose

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> Lactobacillus hilarities [as in hilarious]

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> Lactobacillus homophobia [i dare not comment on this one.]

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> Lactobacillus. admonishes [i just love this one]

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> Saccharomyces pretoriensis [as in Pretorius, a very wonderful

composer in the 1600's]

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> Lactobacillus fermentum [as in ferment]

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> Candida humilis [as in humility]

> It would not surprise me if Dom named some of these microbes. I don't know if

the homophobia subspecies goes with the tolerant and the admonishes strains. An

expert in Ancient Greek and Latin could probably find more funny and interesting

names.

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> and Katrina Bird's Incredibly Lucky Daddy

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[Guest guest]

Hey,

Are you sure about this? I'm no expert, but I thought " microbes " and

" microorganisms " are basically synonymous - some are beneficial, some harmful,

and some neutral.

Sincerely,

in Tennessee

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Microbes are what cause disease.

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