This is my
unprofessional understanding of what happens with sugar in yogurt and I am sure it would be the same in Kefir.
Sugar, ANY sugar, is food for bacteria. That is one reason people crave sugar when they have a yeast infection. The sugar feeds the yeast which make it grow bigger/more-- and throw the balance between the good and bad bacteria off. I have been told that if you really wanted to get hard core in defeating the bad yeast you should stay away from even fruits.
In my opinion, if there is no extra sugar
added to the crabberry juice I would not worry about it because the benefits you are getting from the good bacteria in the kefir should out-weigh the bad effects the natural sugar content give toward the bad bacteria.
The good bacteria in the kefir and yogurt are there to keep the yeast balanced in the body. If the body is nourishing the bad bacteria by eating too much sugar and processed foods, there will be more bad bacteria/yeast. But if you are replenishing the good bacteria by eating yogurt and kefir than your body will begin to balance the yeast to healthy levels.
One man attributed some alcoholism to overactive yeast in the gut..it craves the sugar alcohol gives. Selah (ponder that)
