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They work as advertised. Nothing happened to my milk, until the fourth day, and there was suddenly kefir in my mason jar. Just follow their directions and you should be able to start making some good tasting kefir. Also my first few batches were very bland, not sour or sweet or tangy. Just neutral. After a week it started tasting better and richer until it finally tasted like real kefir. You just need to be patient. I would buy again from this company. By the way, I had bought live grains from Amazon before purchasing these, and the live grains I had purchased were very dehydrated and most likely contaminated when I received them. The live grains didn't make kefir. They only made my milk curdle. Maybe it was bad luck. Either way, these grains from Cultures for Health worked as advertised, so I'd buy from them again and I highly recommend them. I am making 4 cups of kefir a day, I might add. So the grains will get stronger in time and I can already see them slowly multiplying too. I guess I'm a dad now.Update 7/29/17I thought I didn't need kefir anymore so I had thrown the grains away after a couple of months of good use. I should've saved some of the grains (for which there are methods) but I am lazy. My digestion issues returned (chronic constipation, bloating, nonstop horrible gas that can kill people and kill me). Naturally I bought some more kefir grains from Cultures for Health. In the past, I had made them in the winter and back then, to help them ferment properly, I needed to put them in my room on the second floor where it was warmer in my house. Well It's summer now and I stupidly put them on the second floor where it can get really hot. While I was at work, they overfermented to the point where I killed them. The subsequent batches no longer made kefir. I guess I'm a murderer. You see, when kefir grains are young, starving them can stress them out and render them pretty much useless. When they mature, they are tougher and can survive overfermentation sometimes. Anyway, I contacted Cultures for Health via email, asking them if there was a way to revive them. They surprisingly responded within an hour and were extremely helpful and friendly. They had me make two more batches with the grains to see if the grains would come back to life and start making kefir again. The grains didn't. So Cultures for Health sent me new grains for free, even though it was clearly my fault that the young grains were dead. The new grains they sent are currently working great for me. I am now making kefir again and this time, I wisely let the kefir ferment in the basement where its much cooler and temperatures are stable, instead of upstairs on the second floor. Anyway Cultures for Health has excellent customer service, which really cares about you the customer. And well me :) I highly recommend them. They are a safe bet!

I bought these grains (Cultures for Health - CFH) during the second week of August 2016. The extremely small amount of grains you get is a joke. I had several issues getting good kefir, including poor texture and taste, and lack of growth in the grains. I made several adjustments, including different amounts of milk and different culturing times, and still had difficulty. I ended up getting another order of grains during the first week of September 2016, and after activating them, I combined both sets of grains. I have continued culturing through early October, again making several adjustments (including adjusting ambient temperature) to try to get a good batch of kefir. The grains have made very minimal growth and could barely produce 2 cups of okay kefir, still lacking in texture. I did get a few decent batches of kefir over the course of almost 2 months, but it seemed to be by chance and did not appear to be directly related to anything differently I did, because I could not reproduce the same kefir while keeping all the other factors the same. I was hopeful and really gave these grains a chance, but after almost 2 whole months of investing a lot of time and effort, I only have 1 TEASPOON of grains (a heaping teaspoon, and that is with 2 orders of grains).I then bought from a competitor, and am amazed at the superior quality of their grains. The taste and texture is excellent and significantly better than CFH—you can't even compare the two. What I achieved after about 1 week with the competitor's grains, I could not achieve after 2 months with CFH grains. The competitor's grains grew from 2 TBS (what I ordered) to 3/4 cup in ~ 2 weeks (14 batches). Now that is what I call healthy, active grains.Maybe others are having a good experience with these (CFH) grains, and if they are, good for them. But I wonder if people who gave 5 stars for CFH actually know how amazing kefir can be. Don't get me wrong, CFH grains do turn the milk into kefir, but the overall quality is poor and far inferior to at least one competitor that I tried. I did contact CFH with questions and they were prompt and helpful, and they did send me a free order when I had issues. But I am still dissatisfied with the poor quality of their product.The pictures attached show the amount I grew with TWO orders of grains after ~2 months of culturing. (one order was cultured for less than 2 months as it arrived later).

After reading the reviews I was a little hesitant but it turned out perfect. I put the grains in a mason jar with a cup of milk for 12 hours, then strained out the grains and put them in a jar with about 1.5 cups for 24 hours. Strained them out and put them in a jar with about 1.5 cups of milk and 12 hours later had Kefir. (The instructions say 4 rounds but it definitely didn't take that long). I did use ultra-pasteurized milk (instructions say not to) and that worked just fine as well. These are hearty grains and I'm getting a jar of Kefir every 12 hours which is a bit too fast for me. I left the last batch for 24 hours even though it turned at 12 hours and it seems to be fine (didn't over-culture or taste bitter) and allowed me to not get overwhelmed and run out of jars. If the Kefir separates into curds and whey just shake the jar and you'll be fine. I used a paper towel piece to cover it to avoid insects and then use the mason cover when I'm storing the Kefir in the fridge.When making new batches I just scoop the top inch or so of kefir into a new jar (before I mix the rest together) and fill with milk. You don't have to actually strain out the grains once you start getting Kefir, there will be plenty of cultures/grains sitting at the top layer.

This is a terrific product! Love my grains & make 1 cup of Kefir daily. It's made me feel better. Comes with plenty of grains. Makes the best Kefir with all the best natural probiotics.