Unlike store-bought probiotic supplements, the probiotics work in the food itself and do not rely on being within the digestive system to be activated. By the time you get your food, the probiotics have done their job! The reality is that ‘probiotics’ are a bit of a misleading name for this technology, since most ‘probiotics’ that we as consumers think about are designed to be consumed to be effective. In reality, ‘probiotics’ refers to any live organisms that provide a health benefit—and in this case they are just good bacteria that are crowding out any potential bad bacteria in the food before it’s ingested.