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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My favorite is pouring Kefir over frozen blueberries.
Not The Bee?
We are starting to make smoothies in the morning.
No, just the honey..................
You need more fiber..................🙄
“alfalfa, buckwheat, clover, and orange blossom honeys”
WHAT? They didn’t include the famous New Zealand Manuka Honey? It’s supposed to be one of those “wonder foods.”
in the mid east yogurt and honey are NEVER mixed. theres this weird theory that yogurt is a “cold” food - - very little protein and honey is a “ hot” food— lots of protein. I have no idea where this theory comes from but it made sense over there.
What’s for breakfast?
Nut ‘n Honey!
Chris Rock had a funny variation of that commercial....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpnINrZM_M
I’m sure I have a fatty liver so I’m trying to do intermittent fasting, eliminate most added sugars and seed oils, drastically reduce my carbs, ingest probiotics like yogurt and soluble fiber.
All in an effort to really reduce inflammation and insulin resistance and increased good gut bacteria.
Also starting to include Hawthorn Berberine and K2/D3, natto.
Manuka is great for allergies.
” honey is a “ hot” food— lots of protein. “
Yogurt has more protein than honey.
My bees eat yogurt.
This is kinda funny. I like to buy plain, unsweetened yogurt and then sweeten it with honey. Who knew that was healthy?!
I sprinkle little bit of honey on cottage cheese, whole milk yogurt (I eat every day), whole wheat toast, hot tea, etc. Have been doing it for many years.
I do it only because I like taste of clover honey. Doing well at age 84. No medical bills!
I’ve heard that eating raw honey can help prevent pollen allergies - at first glance it makes a kind of sense because raw honey might contain pollen, perhaps processed to some extent by the bees, and maybe ingesting it could build immunity to the kind of reactions some of us get to pollen. But I have no idea if there’s any truth to it.
” NEVER mixed.”
The theory is that you should balance the plate with BOTH hot and cold.
Pooh Bear agrees.
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