Sauerkraut juice, the future darling of Alsatian farmers?

• Sauerkraut juice, a lacto-fermented drink rich in vitamins and minerals, is good for the intestinal flora.

• Its sales are still “confidential”, which would partly explain why it is rarely bottled in Alsace, which is the main French region for the production of sauerkraut cabbage.

Juice of pomegranate, coconut, birch sap… And even sauerkraut. Identified for its gastric virtues, this lacto-fermented juice is rich in trace elements and therefore acts, according to its promoters, in a beneficial way on intestinal disorders. Good for your probiotic, it's also packed with vitamins and minerals. If it is not yet the darling of sales of lacto-fermented juices, this surprising beverage whose smell and taste can remind you of the day when you were seated in a winstub in Alsace, finds more and more its place on the shelves of specialized organic shops. A boon for Alsatian farmers, the main region producing sauerkraut cabbage? Not really, or at least not yet.

“There is as much juice as there is sauerkraut,” recalls Sébastien Muller, president of Sauerkraut d'Alsace IGP.

But it is a juice generally considered as waste and which is mainly used to methanize and produce energy.

But it is true that on the organic part of the production, it is possible to use it to consume it in juice.

This is often done in Germany and for a long time.

The sauerkraut producer continues: “We did a few small trials.

And there are projects underway in France with beverage makers because like all lacto-fermented in general, it is developing.

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Sales for the moment "confidential"

For now, a large part of sauerkraut juice is produced on the other side of the border. But not enough to make the Alsatian cabbage breeders goat joined by

. Generally, they even smile at the idea of ​​bottling their juice from the organic part of their production.

And that is understandable.

For now, in-store sales remain very “confidential”, as confirmed by specialist organic shops in Strasbourg city centre.

The latter also explain to 

 that they have too small areas to store and manage products whose sales are still “occasional”.

Consequently, to find some, it is advisable to go to their shops on the outskirts.

Or on the Internet.

So encouraging but not yet enough to make fat puffs with this lacto-fermented juice.

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