Are they not all pasteurised? Also, some of the kombucha drinks seem very sweet. i wonder at just how gut-friendly they really are?
There’s one south of Saumur, and several Vie Claire’s around.
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Yes but they eat every evening, I dont. I respected my work colleagues for doing it but after conditioning myself I joked with them how easy a short daytime fast was 
Yes commercial crap! Like naked smoothies, owned by coca cola and will send blood sugar out the roof!
That particular sauerkraut is vacuumed packed and did not state pasterised but then not saying something isnt actually stating either way. Only contacting the company might get the truth
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Thanks, @JaneJones : Distré is easy to get to
We ate Polish fermented gherkins in the UK. Must find a supply. We’ll probably make kefir.
I make my own ginger beer, kimchi and sourdough bread.
I also buy raw cheeses and Greek yoghurt.
Life is good. 
Water or milk kefir? I used the water one flavourved with some red grapes. Milk kefir is high in lactobacillus which can overload the gut and not neccessarily in a health promoting way. I noticed my body would get rid of the milk kefir within 30 minutes of consumption, from this and listening to my body I stopped making and consuming it.
In the UK we used to buy milk kefir from the Polish shop. If we hadn’t consumed any for a while we would start off with a small glass of it and increase over the week. Didn’t have any problems.
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Likewise, but after a pretty long time of occasional consumption, not too much at once things changed and listening to a gut microbiome expert, they showed how its not always good.
Try local farm shops and markets. I’m in Brittany and can get yoghurt, gros lait, choucroute in the market every week. With the dairy products you can return the containers. Also in this area supermarkets have yoghurt (sheep and goat as well as cow) and lait ribot, a soured milk. I’ve also seen kefir.
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