Milk Will Reduce The Benefit Of Tea ?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 41 views

Consuming milk good for health, but many of the benefits of tea will be lost if mixed with milk.  A study in German showed that black tea soothing effect on arterial relaxation would loose if tea was contaminated by milk.

Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world, after water of course. Especially after reported that tea consumption will help reducing the chances of heart disease and cancer, the tea consumed in a broader range.

Stangl and his research team found that women who consumed half a liter of black tea has more flexible arteries than those who did not consume tea. Arterial relaxation proved to be concerned with the increased blood flow, caused by tea.

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Soyghurt the Fermented Soymilk

Thursday, December 17th, 2009 192 views

In addition to tempe, another product of fermented soybean is soyghurt. Soyghurt is almost the same as yoghurt, only that soyghurt made of soybean / soymilk while yoghurt is made of fermented milk. The main reason is because the soymilk is having a different kind of carbohydrate. For supporting the fermentation work / process, a sweetener that must be added to the soymilk first.

In markets today, there are two types soyghurt, one with ‘live bacteria’ or one of the already devastated Microbe and good for our digest system. Soyghurt will be best to be in the refrigerator or heat at 65′C

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Soymilk : Low Lactose and Digest Safe

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 546 views

Easily can be seen from the name, soymilk is a milk which is made of soybean as the basic ingredient.

soymilk

According to some articles, soymilk for fist was manufactured in China. Along with time grows, soymilk then spread throughout Japan. Soymilk started to encounter Southeast Asia after the Second World War.

Soymilk is considered capable of replacing cow’s milk, because they have high protein content as cowmilk. Two glass of soy milk is believed to be capable of meeting the protein needs in a day.

One of the advantages compared, the consumption of soymilk toward cowmilk is that soymilk is low lactose, so it is safe for digestion and for those who are intolerant with cowmilk.

There are generally two kinds of soymilk packaged for sale in the markets. The liquid form and powder one.

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