Health & Wellness
Our water kefir is naturally fermented using filtered water, organic fruits and live water kefir cultures - creating a refreshing fermented drink that can be easily incorporated into your everyday wellness routine.
Why water kefir
Why Water Kefir?
Water kefir has a number of health benefits, chiefly owing to its high probiotic content. Our water kefir contains millions of probiotic live cultures, which means they have been proven to reach the gut alive in clinical studies. These probiotics can aid digestion, help regulate pH levels to support your microbiome, and inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria, leading to a happy, healthy gut.
The range
Four flavours, fermented for four days.
Live cultures, water and four days. Only the flavour changes.
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The benefits
The Benefits of Water Kefir
Gut & Digestive Support
Naturally fermented with live cultures to support digestive wellbeing, gut balance and a healthy microbiome - helping to support comfortable digestion and everyday gut health, including concerns around bloating and digestive discomfort.
Naturally Fermented
Our traditional fermentation process creates live cultures and naturally occurring fermentation-derived compounds, including organic acids, enzymes and other bioactive compounds. No artificial shortcuts. Just real ingredients and fermentation doing what it is meant to do.
Supporting Your Microbiome
A healthy, diverse gut microbiome plays an important role in overall wellbeing. Including a variety of fibre-rich foods and naturally fermented foods as part of a balanced diet can help support your everyday gut-health routine.
Real Ingredients
We believe what goes into your kefir matters. Filtered water. Organic fruits. Live cultures. Simple, carefully selected ingredients transformed through natural fermentation into a fresh, naturally sparkling water kefir.
Gentle & Refreshing
Light, refreshing and naturally fermented, our water kefir provides an alternative to heavily processed and artificially sweetened drinks while making it easier to include fermented foods in your daily routine.
Why we created The Irish Kefir Co.
Better Gut Health Starts With What You Do Every Day
At The Irish Kefir Co by Balance You Foods, we believe that looking after your gut starts with the simple things you do every day.
Your gut microbiome plays an important role in digestion and overall wellbeing. When things become unbalanced, it can show up as bloating, digestive discomfort and changes in digestion. Research is also continuing to uncover the fascinating relationship between our gut microbiome and areas such as immune function, inflammation, energy, skin health and the gut-brain connection.
With so many supplements and quick fixes available, it's easy to overlook one of the most important foundations of gut health - what we eat and drink every day.
A varied, fibre-rich diet, together with naturally fermented foods and drinks containing live cultures, can be a simple way to support your everyday gut-health routine.
That's why we created our naturally fermented water kefir using filtered water, organic fruits and live water kefir cultures - a refreshing and convenient way to bring fermented foods into your day.
No quick fixes. Just real ingredients, natural fermentation and simple daily habits to support your gut from the inside out.
The Irish Kefir Co by Balance You Foods
Taking care of you from the inside out.
How we ferment water kefir
96
Hours
Four days, in small batches
Every batch ferments for 96 hours in Ballinrobe before bottling. Nothing pasteurised. Nothing artificially flavoured.
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“Four days of fermentation, carefully crafted in Co. Mayo - a naturally refreshing way to enjoy water kefir every day.”
Our story
Made in the
Made in the
west of
Ireland
Made by hand in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
We started making it at home, for ourselves and the people around us.
It's made the same way today - small batches, organic ingredients, four days.
Meet the maker
Meet the Maker
Hi, I’m Marina, founder of The Irish Kefir Co by Balance You Foods.
Food has always been a huge part of my life. My background is in food, specialising in pastry, and over the years I’ve owned restaurants and worked in the food industry. So when my own health journey led me towards nutrition, hormones and gut health, it felt like a very natural direction for me to take.
After living with endometriosis for many years, I wanted to understand more about my own body and why I was experiencing certain symptoms. I became fascinated by the relationship between the food we eat, our gut health, hormones and how we feel every day.
I didn't want another quick fix or to simply follow the latest wellness trend. I wanted to understand the why. That curiosity brought me back to studying, where I spent three years learning about hormone and gut health.
The more I learned, the more conscious I became of how much highly processed food has become part of everyday life. Convenience has its place, but I became passionate about getting back to simpler food - real ingredients, more fibre, good sources of protein and foods that haven't been unnecessarily processed.
Because food was already my world, bringing the two together came naturally. I could take what I was learning and combine it with my experience in food to create products that were natural, nutritious and, importantly, tasted good.
Creating Balance Her Bites
That journey led me to create Balance Her Bites.
I wanted to take something familiar - a delicious bite - and make it differently. Balance Her Bites are natural and raw, high in fibre and protein, and made using carefully selected ingredients.
For me, they represented exactly what I had come to believe about food: keep it simple, focus on real ingredients and move away from unnecessarily processed foods wherever we can.
Creating the bites brought together two sides of my life - my background in food and pastry and everything I had learned about nutrition, hormones and gut health.
Then Came Water Kefir
Water kefir felt like another natural step. I loved the simplicity of it - filtered water, organic fruits, live water kefir cultures and time. No artificial shortcuts. Just real ingredients transformed through natural fermentation.
I wanted to create a water kefir that tasted genuinely good and was easy to make part of everyday life. Something refreshing that offered an alternative to the heavily processed and artificially sweetened drinks we're surrounded by. And that's how The Irish Kefir Co was born.
Our water kefir is made here in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, and I'm still very hands-on - from developing our flavours and choosing ingredients to overseeing fermentation and production.
When I look at The Irish Kefir Co today, it feels like everything has come full circle - my years working with food, living with endometriosis, going back to study hormone and gut health, creating Balance Her Bites and building Balance You Foods.
All of it has shaped one simple philosophy
Food doesn't need to be complicated. Choose real ingredients, eat more of what nourishes you, reduce the heavily processed foods where you can, and focus on the small things you can do consistently every day.
Taking care of you from the inside out.
Reviews
What Our Customers Say
“My digestion feels so much better.”
“I’ve been drinking the kefir regularly and have really noticed a difference in my digestion. I feel much more comfortable after meals and it has become part of my everyday gut-health routine.”
“I’ve really noticed a difference with bloating.”
“I started drinking the kefir every morning and over time noticed I wasn't feeling as bloated or uncomfortable after eating. I love the Lemon & Ginger and wouldn't be without it now.”
“My gut just feels happier.”
“I originally bought it because I wanted to look after my gut health. Since making it part of my daily routine, my digestion feels much more settled. It's one of those little things I genuinely look forward to every day.”
“A great alternative to milk kefir.”
“I wanted to include more fermented foods in my diet, but I just don't like the taste or texture of milk kefir. Water kefir has been a great alternative. It's light, refreshing and easy to drink, and I love having a naturally fermented drink with live cultures as part of my daily routine.”
“So refreshing and not overly sweet.”
“I've stopped reaching for ordinary fizzy drinks and have the Apple & Blueberry kefir instead. It's light, naturally sparkling and really refreshing. I love knowing I'm getting a fermented drink with live cultures at the same time.”
“The Creatine Berry is brilliant after training.”
“I train several times a week and was already taking creatine, so having it in my water kefir is so convenient. I get my creatine alongside a naturally fermented drink, and the berry flavour is gorgeous.”
“It has become a staple in our fridge.”
“I started with the Lemon & Ginger and now I've tried nearly all the flavours. I love having something naturally fermented in the fridge that tastes good and is so easy to add to my daily routine.”
“I wish I'd discovered water kefir sooner.”
“I've tried lots of different gut-health products over the years, but this is one I actually enjoy taking. My digestion feels more settled, I don't feel as bloated, and it's such an easy habit to stick to.”
Delivery
Delivered chilled to your door
Packed chilled
From Co. Mayo
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Refrigerate on arrival and open slowly. It's live, and it stays lively.
Collect in Ballinrobe - free.
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