The BEST Foods At Costco For GUT HEALTH

flavor city family what is up it is bobby coming at you once again from my favorite place in the world costco and we're actually going to do a really cool video about the best foods you can eat for gut health specifically here at costco because they're loaded with great items that are probiotic rich bacteria rich fiber rich at the best prices here at costco if you do research or look around in modern science and news gut health is very important that's because they call the gut the second brain and unfortunately a lot of the foods we americans and us people in the world eat is bad for your gut it's high in inflammatory oils sugar processed food that actually kills your good gut bacteria and feeds the bad one it's the opposite of what you want to do so what we're going to do is shop around costco and show you the best items to eat for gut health how to avoid a few ones that are bad and why exactly they're good for you so less talking more shopping let's walk around costco yogurt is incredibly gut friendly but the type of yogurt you eat really impacts if it truly is gut healthy and i'm sorry jamie lee curtis while she was just a spokesman like 15 years ago of activia even though it has billions of live and active probiotics supports gut health well debatable because when you look at the ingredients here look how high up cane sugar is it's the second ingredient my friends when one container has eight grams which is exactly two teaspoons of cane sugar that's a problem i'll tell you why in a second the milk is also low quality milk in my opinion is gmo and they can't even rely on the flavor of fruit they put natural flavors in here and have to coagulate it with corn starch so maybe you're like bobby i do better than jamie lee curtis and true lies i get something premium like chobani here right this is better for you it's got 11 grams of protein my friends always read the ingredients because this also has cane sugar here to the tune of nine grams over two teaspoons per and they also use the dreaded natural flavors fun fact while yogurts have the healthy bacteria and the probiotics although i would argue that it's not technically a probiotic because those probiotics will die in your stomach immediately they do have fantastic living bacteria when you have that amount of sugar it actually kills the gut bacteria and feeds the back one the other one so you're pretty much doing yourself the opposite of what you want you're way better off dancing around here excuse me and grabbing plain yogurt organic so it's non-gmo and greek style the reason why i like this here is greek style yogurt is strained when you strain this you're straining out a lot of the lactose and the natural sugar in there is always going to be lower and it ups the protein too fun fact when you combine fat and protein it really satiates your hunger so this is the kind you want a costco ideally i prefer grass-fed they don't have that here loaded with gut friendly bacteria no added sugar no nasty natural flavors best in class for your gut at costco if you're a long time viewer of the channel you hear me gush many many times about this number one this is so darn tasty for lunch is a little side salad number two talk about saving money this is literally double the price at any other grocery store i've seen it many times why is this so gut friendly because unlike most sauerkrauts this is a fermented sauerkraut meaning look at the ingredients you don't see any vinegar in there and because of that it's a natural fermentation now i'm not saying that sauerkraut with vinegar is bad but that's not a fermented product because this ferments it takes longer and with the lack of vinegar this is literally loaded with billions of live and active cultures in here that are incredibly gut friendly the thing about this is a lot of fans ask me how to eat it can you heat it up do not heat it up in my opinion why because you'll kill the living bacteria i usually have this with my turkey sandwich on either siete wraps here from costco or my favorite beast culture bread with my turkey from costco my prosciutto from costco my mayonnaise from costco and it's a side salad and if you need a little flavor because you don't like the natural flavor pour some bobby approved dressing on top this is so darn good and good for your gut and i'm telling you what's good for your wallet that price load up my friends you cannot talk about gut health in my opinion without reaching into my cart here and grabbing this you hear me talk about it all the time seed probiotic yes they're supporter of the channel but in my opinion if you take a probiotic or you're in the market for a probiotic stop wasting your money on ones that don't work seed works and yes a diet filled with gut friendly foods is important but even if you have a very gut friendly diet like i think i do you want a probiotic because a real probiotic makes it past your tummy all the way through your intestine to your actual colon to deliver bacteria that is so good for immunity regularity skin health stuff like that and most probiotics on the market they never make it to your colon they die in your stomach acids kind of like the probiotics in the yogurt diet in your stomach acid too seed has a capsule within a capsule only the outer capsule dissolves in your tummy and because it's made of pomegranates it has fiber fiber-rich foods feed your gut bacteria it's a prebiotic then the inner capsule actually makes it down to your intestines to your colon to deliver the bacteria it works pretty much everyone have turned on to it community member friend family loves it so if you're in the market or you uh want to get one tryseed my promo code always works for 15 off your first month supply free shipping but international shipping worldwide for a flat rate and 30 days risk free and they just came out with the kids version a pediatric one for 3 to 17 years old which rose will be starting very soon best in class two check it out you will love seed [Music] you very exciting snack here in the snack food aisle i saw the other day when i was leaving they're skinny dipped caramel bites 12.99 so why am i talking about this well when you get a lot of sweet treats they're usually not gut friendly something like this which is very popular that's just too much sugar in my opinion for many reasons but 11 grams of added sugar per serving is too much because what did i say about sugar it's honestly really bad for your gut because it feeds the bad gut bacteria and kills the good one well if you're gonna have a sweet treat you probably want it to be low to no sugar my friends say hello to this this is skinny dipped bites that are chocolate salted caramel one and a half nut carbs and only one gram of sugar per serving a sugar serving is a square talk about bobby approve scan this with the bobby approved app it's going to come up approved because you're talking about chocolate the sweetener is a zero calorie zero carb allulose chicory root fiber is extra fiber good for your gut i don't love cane sugar but you can deal with one gram per square and the rest of the ingredients are cleanest can be non-inflammatory coconut oil and the milk and milk fat is non-gmo so listen everyone's human you need your chocolate fix every once in a while try to do the low to no sugar ones with no cruddy ingredients the fact that it's one gram of natural sugar and they're not using inflammatory oil like sunflower oil they're not using natural flavors is crazy maybe one day it'll go on sale but until then this is a great treat that is not gonna kill your gut bacteria like a lot of the sugary ones over there you gotta come all the way to the end of this aisle nobody puts baby in the corner but i guess they did for two super food gut friendly items hemp hearts and more importantly the magical seed that grows first of all chia seeds are great the price to get three pounds of organic chia seeds for 869 is totally loco in la cabeza but why is this a gut friendly food in addition just to being a super nutritional powerhouse because 3 tablespoons of chia seeds has a whopping 10 grams of added fiber and three net carbs my friends fiber-rich foods are essentially prebiotics they feed your gut bacteria very important also fiber-rich foods help you become more regular these swell up they get gelatinous they help loosen things up it's fantastic if you're wondering for ways how to use this chia seed pudding is great or for the summer a really nice way to stay hydrated is to put a few tablespoons into water or some kind of juice carry that around with you you stay hydrated and you get a ton of fiber this is literally fantastic and that price is maybe even more exciting not quite as much fiber but hemp hearts which i love and they're expensive and this is a good deal because most places are twice that price hemp hearts for a two tablespoon serving yes it only has one in here but you can throw a few tablespoons into your smoothie but it's a one net carb and they're really nutrient dense i mean look at this manganese magnesium phosphorus super super high quality i would probably just throw some of these in your smoothie and be good to go this is great the chia seeds even better and the price unbeatable from costco i talked about kombucha last week because one of them was on sale but i have to talk about it quickly again because it's so popular and it is a gut-friendly tonic that has become the rage the last few years this is the kirkland one and like it says here it's got two billion probiotic cultures yes a lot of the probiotics will die in your stomach they won't make it to your um colon but it's got a lot of gut friendly bacteria this is good i just don't love the fact that there's 18 grams of sugar per bottle you're usually gonna see some sugar here because it's part of the kombucha culture if you ever see added sugars or natural flavors do not get it so i would drink half of this bottle it's not bad it still has a ton of bacteria in here now the one on sale right now is not one i would get this one has a huge sale they're doing samples right at the front here the problem is even though where is it here we go it's a low sugar one see right here they have natural flavors at the end what i would do is get this one this is healthy it's got less sugar turning the wrong side every time it's got less sugar than the costco one only has 12 grams of added sugar per bottle it's got no natural flavors i would still only drink half a bottle get the six grams of natural sugar that's in there but you're getting billions of probiotic in there that are gut friendly i just don't drink it that often it really makes me burp but it is a good drink in moderation i've been talking about protein a lot lately because the flavo city protein smoothie came out about a month or so ago and it's been selling incredibly well so thank you for support but the reason why i'm bringing it up is when you look at most protein powders or more importantly protein shakes i consider them actually very disruptive for your gut people usually just look at the front of something like this they see the protein they see zero sugar they're sold i want you to read the ingredients because almost all read like this and there's a litany of issues here but almost all have sunflower oil i mean when you see artificial flavor you should run forrest rum but you see all these things like cellulose gel more gums here carrageenan emulsifiers when you start getting all of these oils gums and emulsifiers they're very disruptive to your gut and it can be very bloating especially for little ones like in plant-based milk which is why i would avoid these and they're so popular i gotta give a quick shout out to the flavor city protein smoothie powder it's a game changer you guys have been loving it it makes the blender obsolete because it's a protein powder plus smoothie ingredients with no gums oils or emulsifiers with a hundred percent grass-fed non-denatured whey shake it and take it folks are loving it so check that out on my website shopplaycity.com just be careful with these shakes here in addition to being low quality ingredients all of those gums and oils are very disruptive to your gut all right all right all right that is it uh for not only the healthiest foods for your gut from costco but some of the best foods in general once again i really stress the fact that eating a gut-friendly diet is vitally important because the foods we're eating on a regular basis are the opposite they're killing your good gut bacteria and feeding the bad ones through all the sugar we're eating and processed foods so run under the costco grab some of those items check it out leave a comment down below let me know how you like those items ah but that is it for my favorite place on the planet costco i leave you like i always do hashtag keep on cooking mad love and peace later

Channel: FlavCity with Bobby Parrish

Views: 202,006

Keywords: costco, shopping at costco, costco shopping, gut friendly foods, gut health, gut health diet, gut healthy foods, gut health meals, costco haul, foods for gut health, flavcity, bobby parrish

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Length: 12min 47sec (767 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 05 2022