How much useful are live yoghurts?

It is known that in the daily food allowance of healthy and ill people milk and diary products play an important role. These products possess high calorie content, dietetic and medical features for various types of diseases of noninfectious and infectious nature. Have you ever thought in what rhythm passes every new day of your life? The ring of the alarm-clock – morning, you don’t have time to have breakfast, run to work like lightening, where your manager has already fixed your delay, reprimand – and you sit for work without mood. In revenge for delay you remain to work in lunch hour and so till the end of working day, not having time to have lunch. Then your problems at home… And this continues every day.

Stresses, wrong food, unfavorable ecological situation, different infections, and intake of antibiotics – all this in the first turn reflects at the most sensible part of your organism – digestive system. As a result people feel discomfort in the bowels – he gets digestive disorder which appears in such unpleasant phenomena as constipation, diarrhea, feeling of heaviness in stomach, rash on the skin, problems with weight and disbacteriosis. Disbacterosis is a breach of normal micro flora in the organism and its substitution for so called opportunistic pathogenic flora (fungus, staphylococcus, Proteus, streptococcus, Bacillus pynocyaneus, etc.).

More than 80% of our population suffers from disbacteriosis. How overcome this? The best means for the disease is the prevention. The prevention of disbacteriosis should be started from early years and it’s better to start it from right nutrition. It’s desirable to use such products, which will satiate your organism with all necessary vitamins and mineral substances, will strengthen skeletal system and teeth, raise the human immune system. For prevention of disbacteriosis and restoration of intestinal micro flora the scientists recommend include in a daily food allowance sour cream products – kefirs, yoghurts, etc..From ancient times sour milk products used not only in food, but also as a health-giving means from some diseases. In such way Armenians throughout 2500 years used yughord as a health-giving  means for gastrointestinal diseases and intoxications, for sunstrokes, burns, ulcers, skin boils, in make up – for preserving and softening of hair, etc. (an ancient Armenia word yugord (ÛáõÕáñ¹) consists of two parts – (ÛáõÕ), which means butter and (áñ¹) – appurtenant (H.H. Acharyan. Armenian Root Dictionary, 1977. )

Why is yoghurt so useful?
  • live yoghurt cultures (thermopile streptococcus and Lactobacillus), which are present in yoghurts have a positive influence upon gastrointestinal tract of people,
  • yoghurts improve the process of digestion, keep up the balance of intestinal micro flora,
  • live cultures, which are present in yoghurts help the human organism digest lactic carbohydrate – lactose, that’s why even those who have intolerance of lactose digest yoghurts easily,
  • yoghurts are an excellent source of vitamins, especially of B2, B12, of calcium (material for construction of strong bones and teeth) and other micro and macro elements,
  • Yoghurts are obligatory components of children’s daily food allowance because of well digestion and of ability to raise the anti-infectious stability of the organism.

However for the purpose of this product to bring to the organism all its use it is necessary strict maintenance of appointed code of rules throughout the whole food chain. It should be reminded that even in case of use of the best raw material and technologies, the best control system, the products may lose their features if are caught in insufficient conditions. For this several basic rules should be kept.

preserve yoghurts in the refrigerators in the temperature mentioned on the label

use opened product not longer than after 12 hours of its preservation in the refrigerator 

 use products at once and don’t let it in store, if there are not conditions for preservation of its in mentioned temperature.