Image gallery for: Olive my pickle what s the difference between normal pickles and ours what makes fermented pickles so special 🤔🥒 we get this question a lot how a pickle is made determines whether or not it is a probiotic rich superfood or simply a salty snack fermentation preserves vegetables with salt water brine it produces a much different end result than pickling which uses vinegar sugar and or heat canning methods to cook the pickles a non fermented pickle is a high sodium often sugar laden dead cucumber floating in acidic vinegar with sometimes yellow dye 5 a food additive whose consumption has been researched to correlate to hyperactivity in kids among other things a fermented pickle is not cooked rather it is raw and unpasteurized alive and teeming with good bacteria these good guy bacteria a k a probiotics are defined as bacterial organisms that confer health benefits to their host and are absolutely essential to great health because they support your gut not all pickles are created equal indeed we ll take the one on the right 😍🥒 view our probiotic fermented pickles at https www olivemypickle com collections pickles