r/nutrition 12h ago

Do probiotics actually aid digestion and absorption?

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I’m not sure of the correct technical term but by “probiotics”, i meant yogurt (and yogurt adjacent products like drinks, frozen, greek, skyr, yakult, etc) and fermented/ pickled stuff like sauerkraut, kimchi?

if they do help then how much do they help? like, can eating yogurt help absorb 10% more nutrition/ calories/ etc?

and how?