The importance of natural yogurt

This delicious food exists with several textures and flavors, and is a success among all age groups, and has the particularity of being very healthy. Here’s why you should eat more yogurt.

Despite being available in all forms and adapting the nutrients it contains to various age groups, yogurt only reach its fullness as a healthy food and highly recommended to your diet if taken in its natural form, i.e. without any additional sugar or aroma, and preferably skimmed.

The advantage of skimmed yogurt is to offer all the benefits of a natural yogurt, but without the calories it contains.

Proteins

It is an excellent source of protein and as such constitutes a very rich food to include in your diet.

Calcium

Being made based on milk, yogurts are rich in calcium, a mineral essential for a strong bone structure.

Lactose

For the lactose intolerant, yogurts can be a good option to get the calcium necessary doses. Most people who don’t tolerate lactose can handle yogurt. It happens as much of the existing lactose in milk is consumed by bacteria during fermentation, making yogurt free of it.

Vitamins

Rich in vitamin A and complex B, this food has the function to assist in the construction and repair of tissues.

Folic acid

Rich in vitamin B9, it has ten times higher percentage than milk, thanks to bacteria involved in fermentation.

Immune system

Yogurts strengthen your immune system. It is produced by bacteria that will be incorporated in the defenses of your intestinal and digestive system, helping in the absorption of some important nutrients.