We all know the importance of milk.
For nutritional needs, many parents buy a variety of dairy products for their children, including yogurt.
And there are all kinds of yogurt on the market, what kind of probiotics, with fruit pieces, and even children’s yogurt specially provided for children. …
But the question is, have you thought about it? The yogurt you give your child may sometimes not be real yogurt.
Lactic acid bacteria drink, neither milk nor yogurt
Be aware that yogurt is made by sterilizing and sterilizing fresh milk and then fermenting it with lactic acid bacteria, yogurt retains the nutrients of fresh milk and produces a variety of vitamins during the fermentation process .
The lactobacillus drink is a milk-based drink made from fresh milk and dairy products and fermented with lactic acid bacteria, with added sugar, sweeteners and fruit juices ingredients, etc.
Therefore, the so-called yogurt drink or lactic acid bacteria drink can only be regarded as a drink, and cannot be regarded as a real yogurt.
Not only do these products fail to provide the nutrients that milk should have originally, on the contrary, a large amount of sugar can also endanger children’s health, such as dental caries and obesity.
Flavored yogurt, not necessarily healthy
In fact, in addition to lactic acid bacteria drinks and yogurt drinks, those flavored yogurts such as fruit-flavored yogurt and modulated yogurt are not recommended for children to drink.
According to the national food safety standards, flavored yogurt is customized like this—-
“Using more than 80% raw cow (goat) milk or milk powder as raw materials, adding other raw materials, adding or not adding food additives before or after sterilization, fermentation, and nutrition fortification ingredients, fruits and vegetables, grains, etc.”
So not only are these types of yogurts low in protein, but they also have a lot of added sugar, inadvertently increasing your child’s sugar intake.
Ambient yogurt or refrigerated yogurt, which is better for your health?
First, room temperature yogurt
So-called room temperature yogurt actually adds the nutritional whey protein to the base yogurt, so the total protein content is slightly higher than regular yogurt.
It is a good source of high-quality protein and calcium for the human body, and its nutritional status is also improved after professional high-temperature sterilization.
Room temperature yogurt will also retain the protein, vitamins and minerals needed by the human body, but after the normal temperature yogurt is fermented with lactic acid bacteria, it needs to be sterilized again by high temperature, thus killing the lactic acid bacteria in the yogurt, so Room temperature yogurt does not contain live probiotics.
Second, refrigerated yogurt
The most important selling point of refrigerated yogurt is the lactic acid bacteria. In addition to supplementing nutrients such as protein and calcium, it also helps protect your gut by supplementing with beneficial bacteria that support gut health.
Therefore, people with a bad stomach can drink some to regulate their stomach problems.
About the preservation of yogurt, you need to put it in the refrigerator (keep it in a refrigerator below 4 degrees Celsius), if the storage conditions are not good, the acidity will continue to increase, and the yogurt will become Sour and taste is not good. Germs are also produced.
If the storage conditions are good, the yogurt will not spoil and the taste will not change.
How to choose better yogurt for children, we need to pass these 4 points:
1. Protein content
According to international requirements, the protein content of fermented milk needs to be ≥2.9g per 100g, and the protein content of flavored fermented milk should be ≥2.3g per 100g.
According to this standard, it can not be called yogurt, at most it is just a milk drink, and the nutrition of the two is quite different.
2. Ingredients list
Preference is given to fermented milk or yogurt with a simple ingredient list, generally “raw milk (powder) + fermented bacteria”, and some products will also add whey protein powder to increase the protein content .
If it is found that too much free sugar, essence, etc. are added, the overall nutritional effect will be greatly reduced.
3. Sugar content
Since increased free sugar intake increases the incidence of dental caries, obesity and other chronic diseases, according to WHO recommendations, daily free sugar intake should not exceed 5g, preferably Control around 25g.
Therefore, when choosing yogurt, you need to read the food nutrient content table. For yogurt with high sugar content, it is best to avoid drinking too much.
It is worth mentioning that although some yogurts are made “zero sucrose”, they are added with fructose syrup, jam, honey or fruit juice, etc. , also hides some free sugar, so choose unsweetened or unsweetened yogurt whenever possible.
Of course, unsweetened yogurt has one characteristic—it’s sour!
