• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Biomanantial

Slimming, Beauty, Medicinal Plants

Main Navigation

Biomanantial

What would you like to find?
Browse by categories
  • Dietetics
    • Edible seaweed
    • Lose weight
    • Healthy Food
    • Diets
    • Syrup sap diet
    • Dietary
    • Vegetarian
    • Macrobiotic Food
  • Health
    • Pregnancy & Parenting
    • Fitoterapia
    • Herb teas
    • Manual therapy
    • Nature Centers
    • Alternative Therapies
    • Chinese Medicine
  • Beauty
    • Hair Care
    • Facial Care
    • Skin
    • Natural Cosmetics
    • Chest, Legs and Buttocks
  • Personal Development
    • Emotional Intelligence
    • Stress and Anxiety
    • Dating and Love
  • Organic Farming
    • Organic Nutrition
    • Natural Life
    • Environment
    • Transgenics
  • Sports nutrition
    • Burn Fat
    • Supplementation
    • Training and Exercises
  • Recipes & Cooking
    • Food Therapy
    • Seaweed Recipes
    • Soya recipes
    • Fruit recipes
    • Recipes with vegetables
    • Recipes with Grains
    • World Cuisine
  • Biomanantial from A to Z
  • All topics

Probiotics and health benefits

Probiotics and health benefits
  • 4 Recipes with Beans
  • Healthy and beautiful hair with Keratin

Published: 08/31/2013 - Updated: 03/20/2017

Author: Miriam Reyes

There are about 100 trillion bacteria in your gut that help you maintain a healthy lifestyle.

In recent years, probiotics have become an excellent resource that provides the food industry to deliver benefits to our health and today can be found on pizzas, yogurt, chocolate, etc. If you have not eaten a probiotic product, with their increasing availability at some point you will.

Probiotics are live micro-organisms which we often perceive to be harmful. However, it is these micro-organisms that provide benefits that promote human health if consumed in adequate amounts.

Millions of bacteria inhabit our large intestine processing insoluble fibre and regularising our bowel function. They produce vitamins, including B6, B12 and K2, as well as help the absorption of iron, calcium and magnesium into the body.

Another way in which these bacteria are beneficial for the stomach is that they protect against infection by Salmonella and E. coli which can cause diarrhea, severe anemia and, in extreme cases, kidney failure and even death.

Contents

  • Dairy
  • Pickles
  • Other probiotics
  • Prebiotics

Dairy

The micro-organisms that transform milk into yogurt and kefir are among the best and multiply well in the dairy products. Milk is a medium rich in oligosaccharides (complex carbohydrates) that feed the bacteria. Dairy products are refrigerated, which is important for heat sensitive organisms, and are slightly acidic so that the bacteria growing on them are able to survive in the stomach, which the milk will protect.

When you consume a food rich in these organisms, ensure that the packaging says live and active cultures, since dead bacteria does not benefit us. The most trusted brands include specific bacteria on their labelling.

Pickles

Micro-organisms are responsible for fermentation and are therefore indispensable for the preparation of sour pickles, fermented cabbage or sauerkraut and miso soy beans. Fermented foods have been part of the human diet for centuries, but today we consume less. When we do consume these foods, often modern procedures destroy any beneficial bacteria, i.e. it is unlikely that industrialised pickles will contain probiotics nowadays.

  • Pain in the period: Foods that help you avoid
    MORE IN BIOMANANTIAL
    Pain in the period: Foods that help you avoid

It is therefore best to prepare your own fermented food. For sauerkraut, cut cabbage up and place in a bowl, rub the pieces with a tablespoon of salt to remove excess water and store them in the brine and leave them. Wait a week or more until it ferments. You must make sure to keep the cabbage completely covered in the brine to prevent rot or contamination from bad bacteria. You should close the containers tightly to keep bad bacteria out and the good in.

Other probiotics

There are now many products that add probiotics, including non-fermented foods such as cookies, coffee beans, blends for smoothies, etc. but the product label must mention that they are live and active cultures, since otherwise they do not offer any health benefits.

Chocolate is a food that also has probiotics that perform well and are advisable in small amounts.

Probiotics are also being added to cosmetics, cleaning products, mouthwash, sanitizers and other products in order to provide a healthy balance of bacteria in the body.

  • Polen: Source of energy, joy and health
    MORE IN BIOMANANTIAL
    Polen: Source of energy, joy and health

Prebiotics

A diet rich in plant foods like fruits and vegetables helps maintain a favourable environment in our intestines for good bacteria to thrive, so that is why it is important that you include them in your diet.

1 star2 stars3 stars4 stars5 stars

(6 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5)

Loading...

About the author

By Miriam Reyes

Miriam Reyes is a professional expert in nutrition and dietetics. She has more than 12 years of experience in caring for patients with overweight and eating problems. She studied at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA), where she obtained a degree in nutrition. Linkedin profile.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie policy

You may also be interested

  • Bach Flowers: A Treasury within reach Bach Flowers: A Treasury within reach Today, most of the general population is habitual consumer and knows the most common drugs [...]
  • Anemia: diet, recipes and food to combat it Anemia: diet, recipes and food to combat it The best remedy to treat anemia is through quality food. Anemia is characterized by a [...]
  • Walking: a powerful interior art of discovery Walking: a powerful interior art of discovery Walking can be an exercise and become the daily routine. Or, on the other hand, [...]

You are here: Biomanantial » Health » Probiotics and health benefits

All about Health

  • Lower your bad cholesterol with these foods Lower your bad cholesterol with these foods If your bad cholesterol (LDL) goes up and down regularly and when you aren’t aware [...]
  • Aromatherapy: Healing through smell Aromatherapy: Healing through smell Since the origin of humanity, smell has been necessary for our survival. We learned to [...]
  • The importance of a good Breakfast The importance of a good Breakfast In this article we wish to highlight the importance of eating breakfast regularly made, it [...]
  • Slow blood clotting (coagulation disorders): Recommended diet and treatment Slow blood clotting (coagulation disorders): Recommended diet and treatment Blood clotting is a body mechanism that is activated when the body suffers from any [...]
  • Natural remedies for headaches Natural remedies for headaches It isn’t difficult to describe a headache. Its intensity can vary from a transient pain, [...]

Copyright © 2023 · Biomanantial
   
Disclaimer  About Us  Cookies Policy  Privacy policy  Contact  Topics
RIVAS INTERNET S.L. CIF: ESB86492501 Travesía Fortuny, 2. 28300 Aranjuez. Spain.
The services, content and products on our website are for informational purposes only. Biomanantial does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment