kefir

[kuh-feer]

Middle Eastern Cooking.

1. a tart-tasting drink originally of the Caucasus, made from cow's or sometimes goat's milk to which the bacteria Streptococcus and Lactobacillus have been added.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kefir¹

First recorded in 1880–85; from Russian kefír, apparently from a Caucasian language; compare Ossetic kʾæpy, kʾæpu “kefir,” Mingrelian kipuri “milk curdled in an animal skin”

Example Sentences

When researchers at Stanford put people on a diet high in a range of fermented foods like yogurt, kefir and kimchi, their microbiomes became more diverse and the levels of certain inflammation markers decreased, according to a small study published in 2021 in the journal Cell.

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I take one thing at the farmers market very seriously, which is the kefir yogurt.

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I keep kefir around because I don’t like dealing with hotel breakfast.

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But at the age of 27, Bowen rode his 1,000th winner this week, reaching the landmark on Kefir d'Oudairies at Fakenham.

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State regulators placed the farm under quarantine, suspending any new distribution of its raw milk, cream, kefir, butter and cheese products produced on or after November 27.

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