This infusion is a wonderful addition to your cupboard. Add it food as seasoning during cooking or add it to a salad dressing and when you feel as though you are coming down with a cold, take a drop too.

It will keep for many months. It will grow its own SCOBY if you leave it very long and might not look very pleasant but it should taste garlicky and vinegary. The longer you leave it the more vinegary it will become. Keep it in the fridge if you want to slow down the fermentation.

In Phase II D2D remember to add foods gradually. Adding lots of fermented foods all at once can be lead to a Herxheimer ('die-off') reaction. This is where the microbes in the ferment compete with the microbes in the gut (usually the upper intestine) and cause the microbes in the gut to die, leaving inflammation, bloating and pain. By adding one new food per week, this is less likely to happen.