The Many Benefits of Fermented Foods and 6 to Try

Fermented foods, from yogurt and tea to an eyebrow-raising concoction called natto, aren’t just hip and tasty. They offer lots of health benefits, too. From Paste.

Derek Dellinger ate only fermented foods, including rotten shark meat, for a year, and he thinks his health benefited. “I felt like I had more energy,” says Dellinger, who chronicled his experiment in The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution. “I never got sick during that year, and saw my blood pressure go down.”