Sauerkraut offers health benefits
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Throughout the year, families across the U.S. sit down together to enjoy their favorite holiday food traditions, with one of the most popular being sauerkraut.

Sauerkraut brings 2,000 years of great-tasting history to the table. But some people may be surprised to learn it has health benefits as well. Sauerkraut is fatfree, high in vitamin C, aids in digestion, and has been shown to fight cancer.

In parts of the country, sauerkraut is popularly served with Thanksgiving turkey. Many Polish-Americansenjoy sauerkraut soup on Christmas Eve.

The Pennsylvania Dutch say it’s good luck to eat sauerkraut on New Year’s Day. Also, many people would never turn down a Reuben sandwich on St. Patrick’s Day, a sauerkraut-topped hot dog on July Fourth, or sauerkraut and sausages during Oktoberfest.

Sauerkraut’s popularity is even extending into holiday cocktail parties. It provides flavor as a healthy ingredient in contemporary hors d’oeuvres and is now popular in drinks. Here’s a hint: Try stuffing olives with sauerkraut to flavor cocktails and use sauerkraut juice when mixing dirty martinis and Bloody Marys.

This story provided by North American Precis Syndicate, Inc.