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🐝 Supplier / Origin : Green Vitamin / Hong Kong
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🌱 Supplier introduction :
Green Vitamin offers variety of healthy, raw, and organic products. Known as one of Hong Kong's premier online health food stores, Green Vitamin produces it's own line of healthy foods and snacks like: raw coconut yogurts, natural probiotic drinks coconut water kefir, lemongrass ginger water kefir soda, Organic green tea lemon kombucha, Organic Rooibos tea kombucha etc..
Team of chefs arm in arm with nutritionists create recipes that are tailored to get the most flavours and nutritional benefits of highest quality produce used in these products. No artificial additives or preservatives are used and extra attention is paid to every ingredient used.
Even packaging strategy is environmentally friendly and employs extensive use of recyclable glass containers, recyclable carton boxes with minimum recyclable plastics, labelling and wastage.
Think healthier food choices, higher nutritional value and incredibly good flavours
Known as one of Hong Kong's premier online health food stores, Green Vitamin produces it's own line of healthy pro-biotic foods and snacks.
Healthy Express specializes in gluten-free, dairy-free, white sugar-free, low-sugar, additive-free, preservative-free, allergy-free, plant-based alternatives, all of which contribute to a healthier microbiome.
Please be open to "less processed" foods
As we strive to create products that retain most of their nutritional value, they may not look like the “highly processed” foods that can sit on supermarket shelves for more than two years.
Our products may...
- Dispersion - because we do not use binders and emulsifiers
- Goes bad faster - because we don't use preservatives
- The colors may not look as bright - because we don't use any artificial colors
- The flavor is a little different every time - because every batch is made with real ingredients, just like no apples are the same on the tree.
🛍 Product Information :
- Rich in probiotics, vitamins, enzymes and minerals,
- Immune-boosting properties,
- Helps to establish
- Good gut health, rich in healthy electrolytes
Water kefir grains are a mixture of bacteria and yeast that feed on sugar to produce lactic acid, very small amounts of ethanol, and carbon dioxide, which carbonates the drink.
How to store
Always keep closed bottles in the refrigerator. Unlike commercially produced beverages, ours are raw and unpasteurized, and the fermentation process continues at room temperature.
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STORAGE
Please keep it in the airtight container in the refrigerator at all times. Unlike commercial manufactured yogurts, our Coconut Yogurt is raw and the fermentation process continues especially in room temperature.
Introduction and historical story of probiotics. Were they initially considered harmful bacteria?
The first person to discover lactic acid bacteria was an accidental discovery during a failed winemaking process. In the early days, even in Hong Kong a few years ago, using lactic acid bacteria to help maintain health was considered a heresy by consumers who lacked food education. Throughout history, the evolution of "lactic acid bacteria and probiotics" is amazing. The earliest written description of fermented dairy products can be traced back to ancient "Mesopotamia", where the local Sumerians had already carved records of related dairy product processing on the stone walls.
The first historical record of Eastern society is closely related to "Genghis Khan and his Mongol cavalry." According to historical records, Mongolian cavalry put goat milk and other dairy products into sheepskin bags. During the long-distance battles, these dairy products naturally fermented into fermented milk. This fermented milk spread to Europe with the expansion of the Mongol Empire.
Gradually, this fermented milk spread throughout the world, and residents of various countries discovered that after dairy products were fermented under "accidental conditions", they would become sweet and sour and delicious. Not only did they not cause discomfort after drinking them, but they could also help digestion. As time goes by, experts and scholars have put forward more academic papers on the benefits of lactic acid bacteria and even probiotics in maintaining health, and fermented foods have gradually become popular all over the world.
Mechnikov, the father of probiotics
Professeur Metchnikoff
The concept of using bacteria to maintain health was almost heresy in an era when the mainstream idea was that "microorganisms are pathogens." It was not until the father of probiotics, the Russian microbiologist Mechnikov, that he began to elevate lactic acid bacteria from the level of "food preservation" to the level of "health maintenance."
Metchnikoff believed that the health of Bulgarians was related to their daily intake of yogurt. He recommended eating 300 to 500 mL of probiotic yogurt every day to help digestion and maintain health. Although he used his Nobel Prize reputation to give speeches across Europe to promote the benefits of yogurt, his ideas were ridiculed by people at the time because they were too avant-garde.
The birth of Yakult, the giant of oriental probiotics
Inspired by Metchnikoff's concept, Dr. Shirota of Kyoto University in Japan successfully isolated a strain that can adjust the physical constitution, named Lactobacillus casei Shirota (also known as Shirota bacteria). Dr. Shirota added this strain to diluted fermented milk and began production in 1935. His idea is that a 100 ml bottle of Yakult contains more than 10 billion live bacteria, allowing people to help maintain their health at the price of a postcard.
Today, Yakult has successfully promoted this product to the global market, with sales of more than 40 million bottles per day and more than a dozen health papers published every year. It not only continues Metchnikoff's philosophy, but also carries it forward.
The application of lactic acid bacteria shows great differences between the East and the West!
The history of lactic acid bacteria in the East and the West has developed to this day, and the preferred fermented foods are very different due to dietary, cultural and weather factors! Lactic acid bacteria prefer a relatively anaerobic environment and thrive in nutrient-rich areas. They can be found wherever there is "animal and plant activity". These bacteria can produce large amounts of lactic acid, which gives food a mild and moderate sour taste and also has significant food preservative functions.
In fact, the presence of lactic acid bacteria is closely related to the need for food preservation. In terms of food materials containing lactic acid bacteria, the East and the West are very different:
Western society is dominated by "dairy fermentation", such as yogurt, cheese and cream.
Eastern societies mainly rely on "plant fermentation", such as soy sauce, kimchi, natto, vinegar and miso.
This shows that the application of lactic acid bacteria as a natural food preservative is deeply influenced by food culture.
5 scientifically proven benefits of probiotics
After two centuries, people's understanding of probiotics has made great progress. Probiotics can not only be obtained from traditional fermented foods, but modern people are more willing to supplement with probiotic health products to allow probiotics to help maintain health in a "more efficient" way.
Currently, the benefits of probiotics recognized by science are mainly the following five items:
Neonatal health maintenance
Early exposure of infants and young children to probiotics (about 4 to 6 months after exposure to complementary foods), such as "Bacillus bifidum" contained in breast milk, can help change the ecology of the bacterial flora and help adjust the physical constitution.
Health maintenance
Probiotics have been proven to adjust the body constitution and help maintain health. They are especially suitable for those who need nourishment before and after childbirth or after illness.
Post-antibiotic adjuvant therapy
After the use of antibiotics, there is often a need to change the ecology of the bacterial flora. Long-term supplementation of probiotics can help maintain good health.
Adjust your physical condition
Long-term supplementation of probiotics can help adjust your physical condition.
Adjust your pace of life
Studies have shown that supplementing with probiotics can help regulate the pace of life and is suitable for people with a busy lifestyle.
The above findings are only part of the research field of probiotics, and are also the general perception of modern people about the benefits of probiotics. But in fact, there is still a lot of unexplored space in the impact of probiotics on human health.
The strength and imbalance of symbiotic bacteria are closely related to health
According to the current microbial theory, probiotics are considered to be symbiotic bacteria that help maintain health. They coexist and influence each other with other microorganisms and host cells in the body. The ecology of microorganisms in the body is influenced by the host's genes, diet and environment. In 2018, the internationally renowned academic journal Science published an article titled "Protecting Microbial Diversity in the Body"2, which mentioned six things to pay attention to in order to enrich the microbial ecology in the body:
- Use antibiotics with caution
- Reduce caesarean sections
- Encourage breastfeeding
- Reduce the use of antimicrobial products
- Diverse diet
- Take more probiotics and prebiotics
The human body has more than hundreds of trillions of symbiotic bacteria. This means that probiotics will have a closer relationship with the future of mankind. Probiotics not only change the ecology of bacterial flora, but also have a greater impact on humans than we imagined. Keeping up to date with probiotic knowledge is the best way to correctly understand probiotics in the future.
