Does anyone here have experience with non-dairy probiotic beverages?
I'm a big fan of
kefir, but I've been trying to cut down on my dairy intake. Last night I stumbled on
GoodBelly, a fruit-based probiotic drink, on sale at Whole Foods. I ended up buying the cranberry-watermelon flavor and had about half a cup at breakfast this morning. It tasted pretty good, like one of those flavored water drinks, more watermelon than cranberry, not as sweet as regular juice (though it has more sugar than kefir). It did have a very, very brief almost after taste that wasn't so good--I suppose the after taste was a kind of oat-y sour (but my description is likely influenced by the fact that I had read the ingredient list, which includes, besides the 25% fruit juice, cultured oat flour and barley malt). The sugar is high, and the calcium is low, but GoodBelly otherwise has decent nutritional values--vitamins C, A, E...
Anyone else have experience with GoodBelly or drinks like it? Have folks who've found kefir helpful with digestion seen comparable effects with the non-dairy drinks?