6 Great Uses For Leftover Sauerkraut Juice. So you’ve eaten up all of your delicious, naturally fermented kraut – now what to do with the leftover sauerkraut juice? Most folks devour the cabbage component of sauerkraut and toss the rest. The truth is that your fermented cabbage’s briny habitat is a big piece of the probiotic picture. When we add sea salt to organic cabbage and seal it all up, a chemical reaction happens