This popular dairy product is under fire to overestimate its health benefits
Your intestine may not get the boost you think it will be.
Most of us do not have much extra time to checkEach health claim Registered on each product label of the grocery store. And even if we did, we would probably not have access to, say, a bioinformatic laboratory to help us make faces.
In general, all we can do is trustthe label And hope that no one does not, right? Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Bad news forkefir Drinkers - New Research suggests that most brands of the beverage seriously undergo drinksintestinal health advantages.
A study Researchers at the University of Illinois and the Ohio University of State reviewed probiotic health claims on KEFIR product labels of five major brands.
"The sampled products had 2 main problems," the corresponding author of the study,Kelly Swanson, PhDKraft Heinz has endowed with a human nutrition professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, saidEat this, not that! in an interview. "First of all, the measured bacterial accounts were much lower than those listed on the label. Secondly, the measured bacterial species did not correspond exactly to those listed on the label."
He added that while some of the bacteria that Kefir products claimed to include were not really present in drinks, other bacteria that the products did not mention shown in their analysis. In short, some Kéfir brands you would get to your local grocery exaggerates the number of useful bacteria they contain and that, rather, are false representing the actual crops that exist inside.
"We do not know why this contradiction exists," added Kelly. "We believe that companies manufacture such products must have a higher level of precision."
Nevertheless, Kelly noted that, since the study examined only five trademarks on the market, the results may not necessarily be applicable to all brands. Otherwise, if your faith is in Kefir is shaken, you can move your allegiance to another dairy product to get your good bacteria solution.
"Traditional buttermilk and cottage cheese with living cultures can also be a good source of probiotics and helping intestines health," saysVandana Sheth, RDN, CDCS, ADF.
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