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Delicious and healthy drink "Snowball"
"Snowball" is a popular sour-milk drink, which is produced by special technology from natural milk and leaven. Sweet taste of this product gives sugar, why "Snowball" like adults and kids.
Production process
Sour-milk drink "Snowball" is made from whole cow milk, which is heated to a temperature of approximately 85 degrees and is aged for no more than 10 minutes. The milk is then subjected to a high pressure homogenization process . This allows the fat balls to split into smaller ones.
Then the leaven of a mixture of lactic streptococci and a famous Bulgarian wand is added to the "Snowball".
To give "Snezka" a pleasant sweet taste in the production process, use sugar and various syrups (strawberry, raspberry, currant, cherry). Sugar sand is added to the milk before it is heated in an amount of 7 percent, and fruit-berry syrups - after the formation of the bunch or already into the cooled product. Their share is up to 10 percent.
Composition and calorie content
Drink "Snowball" can differ in the mass fraction of fat in the composition. The most common product is having 2.5 percent fat content. In 100 g of this drink contains 2.7 g of protein, 2.5 g of fat and 10.8 g of carbohydrates. Caloric content is 79 kilocalories. With such a low fat content (2.5%), "Snowball" can also be used by people who adhere to dietary nutrition.
There are also varieties of a product with a higher fat content. For example, 3.4% "Snowball" is a drink with 3.4 percent fat and 7 percent sugar, as well as a fruit and berry "Snowball" containing 3 percent fat and 15 percent sucrose.
Benefits for the body
A lot of people, and especially children, love the sweet and tasty drink "Snowball". Its use is undeniable.
Firstly, the product has good digestibility due to the presence of lactic acid in the composition , as well as a special combination of food components in milk. Therefore, the drink "Snowball" is shown to people suffering from gastritis, along with reduced acidity of the stomach, enteritis, colitis, diseases of the duodenal ulcer, and all those who need sparing food. Also, the product can be consumed in the presence of peptic ulcer, but not during periods of exacerbation.
Secondly, the drink "Snowball" helps restore the intestinal microflora, normalizes the activity of the stomach. Millions of useful lactobacilli in the product lead to a decrease in putrefactive microflora, which means they slow down the putrefactive processes in the body. Toxic decay products cease to enter the blood in large quantities.
Thirdly, this sour-milk drink is able to normalize water-salt metabolism in the body. This is necessary for cholecystitis, gout, atherosclerosis and other renal and metabolic diseases of an exchange character.
In addition, milk fat has choleretic characteristics and thus contributes to the reduction of the gallbladder.
In addition, "Snowball" quickly quenches thirst, restores strength after exercise and increases the activity of the digestive tract.
How to prepare a drink yourself?
For those who do not trust store products or want to personally supervise the cooking process, the recipe for making "Snowball" at home is suitable. So, 1 liter of milk will require about 100-150 g of starter. A special starter can be purchased at the pharmacy or manufactured independently. Boiling water, the milk is cooled to 40 degrees, add the ferment, mix. The dishes are covered and left for a day in a warm place. The finished product is cooled in the refrigerator for several hours and consumed. Stored such a home made drink "Snowball" no more than three days.
If desired, sugar is added to the product, especially if you do it for children. Also as a filler you can use fruit syrups, jam, fresh fruit and berries.
Thus, "Snowball" is not only a delicious treat, but also a very useful product, which is easy to produce and at home.
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