Not so long ago, a new sour-milk drink - ayran - appeared on store shelves. What is this product useful for, what properties does it have and what is its difference from traditional kefir? This is our article. First, a little about the history of this product.
Sour-milk drink came to us from Central Asia, Bashkiria, the Caucasus. It’s unknown where exactly, because the nomads came up with the drink 15 centuries ago, and because of their lifestyle, they moved from place to place. However, it was they who gave us the drink of the centenarians.
The useful properties of Ayran are not in doubt either among doctors or lovers of this sour-milk product.
The traditional historical recipe for making a drink is to use a special yeast for milk, which gives a certain taste to the drink and ensures long-term preservation of the product. Milk can be cow, goat, camel, mare, sheep. They did it in wineskins, now they use different dishes, but the leaven remained the same. This thermophilic streptococcus in combination with yeast and Bulgarian stick, which contributes to the onset of alcoholic fermentation of the product and acts as a natural preservative. Then fermented milk is diluted with water and spices are added. The composition of the ingredients in the product is different, because every nation is trying to claim copyright for ayran drink. And additives in the form of dill, basil, spices not only make the drink tasty and varied, but also enhance the useful properties of ayran.
Like any other
dairy product, the drink stimulates and normalizes the natural intestinal microflora, improves the secretory activity of the digestive tract, and restores the metabolism. Prevents constipation, neutralizes intestinal disorders, enhancing the excretion of decay products from the body. But the beneficial properties of ayran are not limited to beneficial effects on the gastrointestinal tract. It stimulates the work of the respiratory system, enhancing the flow of oxygen to the lungs, perfectly affects the nervous system. At the same time, drinking morning drink will invigorate. And after drinking the product at night, you thereby ensure yourself a good night's sleep.
In emergency situations, the beneficial properties of Ayran can be used to relieve a hangover syndrome, while dehydrating the body, and restoring the water-salt balance. For people leading a healthy lifestyle, ayran is an indispensable assistant. It actively fights body fat, is used as a dietary product, and helps to restore muscle tone. But with its qualities, ayran has contraindications. These are gastritis, erosion, stomach ulcers, an allergy to lactose.
Some try to make ayran at home, adding fermented milk
for kefir, yogurt to pre-boiled milk, using a silver coin or black bread. Then set for fermentation for 5-6 hours in a glass bowl. Dilute with mineral or salted water. But you won’t get the useful properties of ayran, formed from a real sourdough, and you can only cook a product that tastes like ayran to taste.
In such cases, if you like kefir, then, adding spices, dill, parsley, cilantro and diluting it with mineral water, you will have a home-made fermented milk product with additives, but with the properties of kefir, whose beneficial effect on the body is not disputed. Ayran has some useful properties, and kefir is completely different. Both products equally have a positive effect on the body, but the starter cultures involved in the fermentation process give different healing qualities to the drinks. Drink the product you like best and be healthy!