Posted on 08/07/2024 1:25:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
Evidence has been building about the health benefits of probiotics. Now, new research has found that putting a tablespoon of honey on your yogurt helps the probiotics it contains to survive in the gut. It’s a win-win combination that’s both healthy and delicious.
Humans love to ferment food and drinks – think kimchi, kombucha and beer – and we’ve been doing it for tens of thousands of years. Yogurt is a fermented favorite. Conventional yogurts are produced by fermenting milk using a standard ‘starter culture’ of Lactobacillus and Streptococcus bacterial species; probiotic yogurts supplement the starter culture with probiotic strains such as Bifidobacterium animalis.
There’s growing evidence that consuming probiotics positively affects mood and gut health. Given that honey is commonly added to yogurt, a source of probiotics, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign examined the effect that adding honey to yogurt had on the gut microbiome across two studies.
“We were interested in the culinary pairing of yogurt and honey, which is common in the Mediterranean diet, and how it impacts the gastrointestinal microbiome,” said Hannah Holscher, associate professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, part of the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois, and the corresponding author of both studies.
In the first study, the researchers examined whether adding one of four varieties of honey – alfalfa, buckwheat, clover, and orange blossom – to a commercial yogurt (Activia) containing B. animalis affected the survivability of probiotics in the yogurt during digestion. They added 42 g (two tablespoons) of honey to 170 g (two-thirds of a cup) of yogurt and exposed the mixture to solutions in the lab that mimicked digestion in the mouth, stomach, and intestines.
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I have heard Honey is also good to apply to cuts and scrapes. I have never tried this personally. I like honey too much to waste on cuts and scrapes. I use drops of hydrogen peroxide on a piece of cotton, cover up cuts or ant bites and top off with a band-aid to keep the cotton in place. Very effective with fire ant bites which are numerous in my yard.
Get some NAC. Helps liver.
That makes no sense. 100 grams of honey contains only .3 grams of protein.
100 grams of yogurt contains 5.25 grams.
(But honey does have a wide range of amino acids in that small amount.)
You gave me something new to try. Never had kefir, but just read about it and I’ll look for it - sounds interesting.
I think it must have been carbohydrates that make it a ‘hot food’. Honey has far more carbs than yogurt.
Make sure that when you buy honey, you are supporting your local beekeeper.
If not, you will be eating bunk dumpster honey.
I add cereal Bran Buds and honey with some fresh fruit to plain fat-free yoghourt.
Ahhhhh, good stuff.
like i said i have no idea where this theory came from within that culture.
it could be superstition but I do know that the two were never served together nor mixed together.
probably old wives tale but all commentors here
are free to make their own conclusions
>Make sure that when you buy honey, you are supporting your local beekeeper.
If not, you will be eating bunk dumpster honey.<
I buy local at 25.00 a quart. It doesn’t get any better, it’s worth it.
No watered down store crap!
Been adding honey to homemade yogurt since I was a kid...many, many moons ago.
The homemade yogurt my mom made didn’t have any of the tartness I find in store bought yogurts except for an Armenian brand...Karouns whole milk Mediterranean style yogurt..
Greek yogurt is just yogurt with some watery whey strained out, still a bit too tart, in my opinion.
This is the yogurt we make and enjoy, daily ...
https://www.culturedfoodlife.com/recipe/l-reuteri-superfood-yogurt/
I make smoothies with fresh pineaple, frozen berries, plain organic yoghurt, fresh banana, fresh carrots,and ..ready...
Collard greens!
You never taste the collards and this has lots ..lots of fiber.
It's got to be raw honey though. Most supermarket brands are trash. Best get your honey from a local farm if you can.
I prefer the honeycomb however. The wax in honeycomb is very edible and nutritious. My favorite source of honeycome is from the Savannah Bee Company. A little pricey but the food of the gods.
These articles are SOOOO stupid! How does a higher percentage of a bacteria surviving ingestion equal better health? What makes “Bifidobacterium animalis” a good bacteria, and does the honey also increase harmful bacteria surviving?
Oh wait: “The research was supported by the National Honey Board.” Sigh.
Trader Joe sometimes has Manuka Honey. I tried it. No change in anything for a lot of $$$. Maybe I’m wonderful enough already. :}
Sounds good. I have yogurt for dessert most nights with mango chunks or frozen wild blueberries stirred in. Yum.
Back around 1955 when I was four years old, mom used to give me cottage cheese with maple syrup on it. It was SO good that I still remember the taste. I tried it a couple months back for the first time in over 65 years and it was still good.
These other honeys, not so much.
“is also super expensive.”
I bought it exactly ONCE! As you say, the price was staggering. It tasted like regular honey to me, too.
It has to be local honey with bees taking nectar from the plants you are allergic to. Make sure the beekeeper is selling you pure local honey produced during the spring nectar flow. Honey comes from the nectar. Pollen is used to feed the brood larvae.
As a homeopathic remedy, the nectar contains allergins that stay in the unprocessed honey. Eating the honey lets you build up some immunity. Much like the Indians who would chew a small amount of poison ivy leaves or the mountain folk who would put it in their tea.
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