All you need to know about Probiotic drink
When you think about bacteria, you might think about the ill-causing organisms. But do you know they are different kinds of bacteria including both good and bad. Probiotics are good bacteria that is essential for health. These are live bacteria and yeast that is essential for your overall health and especially for your digestive system. They help in keeping your digestion better and help in preventing problems like diarrhea and preventing irritable bowel syndrome.
Adding probiotic drink in your diet help in improving your overall health.
The word probiotic is derived from Pro and biotic, pro means for and biotic means life and hence probiotic means “For Life”. They help in keeping a healthy balance of good and bad bacteria in the intestine flora.
There are various reasons to have probiotics. Below are a few reasons that might convince you to add probiotics.
· Help in keeping your immunity better
· Reducing inflammation
· Maintaining Blood Pressure
· Bringing Down cholesterol levels
· Preventing Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
· Treating Diarrhea
· Curing urinary tract infections
· Keeping oral hygiene in a better state
· Improving Mood
· Help in weight management
There are various reasons that lead to gut imbalance, the number of bad bacteria take over the good bacteria. Below are few reasons
· Aging
· Eating too much-processed food
· Stress
· Low fiber diet
· Consuming too much dietary fat
· Taking antibiotics
Including a diet rich food in probiotic can help in flushing toxins from your intestine and help in keeping your digestive system better. Apart from having probiotic food like yogurt, buttermilk to your diet. Here are few delicious probiotic drink recipe that you can try
Buttermilk
This is also called Grandma’ probiotic and is traditional Indian probiotic with live organism. But be cautious while cooking or heating buttermilk as it destroy bacteria
Ingredients
1 Cup Curd
1 glass of water
1 Tsp Cumin Seed
1 Tsp Black salt
Green chilli:1/2 optional
Method
Add all ingredients in a mix and whirl. Enjoy this delicious probiotics drink and help in keeping your digestion better.
Probiotic Lemonade
It may not taste like regular lemonade, but this Lacto-fermented probiotic drink is much healthier.
Ingredients
10 lemons, juiced
Sugar, ¾ cup
Whey, 1 cup
2.5 Quats- 3Liter Filter Water
A gallon size jar
Method
Add sugar in a jar and hot water to dissolve it. Add lemon juice into the jar, fill filter water into it. Let it cool down and when the solution is at room temperature addwhey and stir it slowly. Cover the jar tightly and sit on the counter for 2–3 days. Store and drink it.
