"Aktimel" - customer reviews. Benefit and harm of yogurt "Aktimel"

Most of us are familiar with a sour milk drink, sold in tiny, toy-like bottles and called "Aktimel." Reviews about this product are mostly positive. We believe that Aktimel will protect us and help us. But eternally doubting scientists decided to check whether this product is really unique. The results for the beverage manufacturers were disappointing.

Who invented "Aktimel"

The French firm "Danone" exists since 1919. It was founded by Isaac Karasso and named in honor of his little son. Danone is Daniel, only affectionately. Founded the company in Barcelona, its headquarters are in Paris, and branches are available in both America and Europe. In 1992, "Danone" got to Russia. In Moscow, opened the first brand store, and in 1995 - and the first own factory. Enterprises "Danone" produce not only "Aktimel", the use of which is so widely advertised. Well-known brands "Activia", "Danissimo", "Rastishka", "Fantasy" and others. All products of these brands are famous for their excellent taste qualities and are liked by people of any age.

Scandalous advertising

Manufacturers of "Danone", wishing to further popularize the products, created an impressive and memorable advertisement about what a wonderful product, "Aktimel." Customer testimonials also indicate that this drink helped them and their children to get rid of the dysbacteriosis of the stomach, swelling, constipation and perfectly strengthened immunity.

Some people are sure that it was thanks to the product "Aktimel" that they began to get sick less often. But experts EFSA, zealously carrying out quality control of products delivered to the market, questioned the miraculous qualities of Aktimel and carried out a check. As a result, there were no super-useful properties in the drink. Advertising was banned, and "Actimel" received a shameful prize "Golden custard cake" for its inadequate information. By the way, the advertising of Danish's Yoghurt "Rastishki", supposedly strengthening the bones of children and helping them grow, is also recognized as untenable. Now they are going to release a new advertising "masterpiece", designed not for mummies with children, but for office workers. To help them fight fatigue and stress will still be the same "Aktimel." Customer testimonials and new tests will tell you how true this is.

What kind of "genie" is hidden in a small bottle?

According to international requirements, the composition of any product should be reflected on its packaging or label. To say how valuable "Aktimel" is, the benefit or harm will be for the body after its use, you need to carefully study its composition. So, in the drink there are water, cream, two kinds of milk - skimmed and dry fat-free, citric acid, yoghurt starter, glucose, sugar, sodium citrate, flavor additives, E1442 thickener, locust bean gum, carmine dye, vitamins B6, D3 , And in some - vitamin C and living lactobacilli L.Casel Imunitass. Probably, no one arises about water, sugar and milk, even if dry and fat-free. But the rest? How useful is Aktimel?

Vitamins

D3

It is a derivative element of vitamin D. It is a kind of regulator of digestibility in the human body of calcium and phosphorus and "organizes" their intake to the bones. It also affects the level of human immunity, the work of his intestines, kidneys, arteries and heart.

Most of all, this vitamin gives us the sun's rays, under the influence of which it forms in the skin of a person. In the second place of its suppliers in our body is fish oil. On the third - all without exception dairy products.

AT 6

This is pyridoxine, or pyridoxal. We need B6 to activate absolutely all metabolic processes, assimilation of proteins and acids, increase our immunity, improve the work of the heart, vessels, nervous system, radiance of our skin, strengthen hair. We can get it by eating any meat, potatoes, bread, buckwheat or wheat porridge. There is also a lot of this wonderful vitamin in nuts, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage and some fruits, for example, in garnets, lemons, oranges.

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This is a familiar to us ascorbic acid. It, like all other vitamins, strengthens the immune system and participates in many biological processes. Adult vitamin C requires about 100 mg daily. We can get it by eating fruits, berries, greens, rose hips.

"Actimel", whose composition includes all these wonderful vitamins, is really useful. It remains to be clarified how many tiny bottles you need to drink to get the above result.

Flavors, thickeners and dyes

On the bottles they write that in the yoghurt "Aktimel" all the flavors correspond to natural ones. Indeed, in the food industry, for the most part, natural, highly smelling substances, taken from parts of certain plants, are used. It is mint, rose, vanilla, jasmine, strawberry and seeds of some flowers. To give the products the smell of orange, pineapple, cherry, cloudberry, banana and other fruits use artificial aromatic aldehydes.

The thickener E1442 is a modified starch. In the presence of water, it begins to swell and, as a consequence, makes the environment in which it is more viscous. From it there is no harm, no benefit.

Carmine is almost the most expensive food coloring. Get it from the most unpleasant insects, living on cacti and similar to our aphids. Insects are collected, dried, powdered, and this carmine is secreted with ammonia. The dye gives a color from a gentle apricot to a saturated burgundy, depending on the PH environment. Such a wonderful natural element is included in the "Aktimel". Benefit or harm from these supplements is determined by the individual susceptibility to them of each person. There are cases when, after drinking a drink, the children develop a rash.

Gum and sodium citrate

Gum really refers to natural plant supplements. Get it from the bean seeds of carob. It is also used as a thickener. In addition, the gum retains and enhances the taste of the products.

Sodium citrate is pure chemistry. It is obtained from citric acid by adding caustic soda to it. Since there were not officially recorded cases of poisoning with this additive, it was classified as safe for health. The use of sodium citrate in the food industry is due to its properties to enhance the taste. In addition, it is a good preservative and stabilizer. This is what Aktimel has. It remains to clarify the situation with lactobacilli.

Lactobacilli and their uniqueness

L.Casel Imunitass is, perhaps, the most valuable thing in yoghurt "Aktimel". Lactobacilli are known to be probiotics, that is, useful living bacteria. They really enhance immunity, because they are able to produce antibodies to certain types of viruses. In addition, they do not allow pathogenic bacteria to adhere to the walls of the stomach, prevent them from multiplying, and the toxins that these bad bacteria have managed to isolate, probiotics are able to destroy. And a lot of useful things are done by these wonderful bacteria. Scientists are still investigating them. It is because of the lactobacillus that "Aktimel" was advertised. The reviews of many consumers show that the drink helped them restore the activity of the intestines, removed the bloating of the stomach, heartburn, and strengthened the body as a whole.

conclusions

In the yoghurt "Actimel" really there are useful additives. Especially valuable are lactobacilli, which are not found in all dairy products. To enrich the body with vitamins, fresh fruit, nuts, and vegetables - more than a few, will be more suitable, depending on what kind of vitamin is needed. But to restore the activity of the intestine and to normalize the work of the stomach is suitable exactly "Aktimel." Yogurt, which with its help do at home, is also useful, but the amount of lactobacilli in it hardly corresponds to the required norm.

In addition to useful substances, "Actimel" contains and non-useful. Therefore, it should not be given to allergy sufferers, children and certain categories of patients.