The Gut Health Town of Leeds

Otley is fast becoming the Gut Health Town of Leeds.

A 30 minute walk around the town shops and market stalls gives you everything you need to transform your gut health for the better.

You can pick up Kombucha, Kimchi, Kefir and Kraut from Functional Drinks Club where you can select from the largest range in West Yorkshire.

You can get your sourdough bread made the real way from Underground Bakery.  None of this sourdough powder rubbish, I'm talking about bread made with the mother.

You can pick up your 30 different fruit and veg from the delicatessen S&Bs Fruit & Veg or the various market stalls pitched up on a Tuesday, Friday and Saturday every week.

And let's not forget the awesome Farmer's Market that rocks up the last Sunday of every month.  And this isn't a half-hearted farmer's market.  It's packed with stalls and people travel from all over the Leeds and Bradford area to pick up food and drink fresh from the makers.

And then you can get all the meat you need from one of the many award-winning butchers around the market square.  My favourite butcher is Geo.Middlemiss & Son where they have the best cuts of steak in Otley.  That's only my opinion, and I'd recommend checking out all the butchers to find your favourite.

All of these shops and market stalls are right next to each in the centre of Otley and you can walk round them all without buying anything in less than 10 minutes.

To have everything you need in one walk around the town is amazing, especially now we know the damage ultra-processed foods are doing to our health.  And guess what, recent research has shown that over 70% of all food and drink sold in the popular supermarkets is processed rubbish filled with ingredients that are killing us.

When you're finding wall paper paste ingredients in your supermarket bread, you know it's time to make a chance.

 We get it though, where do you start when it comes to your Gut Health?

There's so much information on the internet, and then you get the snake oil salesman type companies selling all types of concoctions that are nothing more than flavoured yoghurt or artificial drinks.

A great place to start would be one of our Gut Health Workshops where you can attend a Kombucha Tasting Session or Kimchi Making Course.

Other great resources of information on Gut Health:

• The Zoe Science & Nutrition Podcast
• The Chuckling Goat Blog

Or, you can just pop into the Functional Drinks Club in owner and speak to me.  I'm always happy to answer any questions on Gut Health and the 4K's of Fermented Food & Drink:

• Kombucha
• Kimchi
• Kefir
• Kraut

We sell a range of all 4 in the shop, so you can pick up what you need on a weekly basis.