Organic milk – How much is important for our health?

Organic milk – How much is important for our health?

Many people believe that glass of fresh orange juice in the morning is part of a healthy breakfast. But did we ever wonder if this is really our best choice?

In other words, a glass of juice contains an average of 110 calories and will provide you with a daily dose of vitamin C, an antioxidant that protects the skin and the whole organism. However, too much orange juice can cause dental wound damage.

A glass of organic milk with 2 percent milk fat will provide you 20 percent of the total daily protein requirement and a third of the required daily calcium. People who drink a glass of organic milk in the morning feel less hungry at lunch. Calcium helps control the body weight, and is not harmful for your teeth like juice. We need to think about this, because if our children consume milk every day, for breakfast, then we can reduce the possibility of harming their teeth.

We can see a lot of advices everywhere – many experts advise us to use organic milk that has no antibiotics and hormones, because this milk will provide us with the amount of antioxidant that our body needs. Since we all try to live healthier, today I will recommend you how to make your own almond milk that is much healthier than regular, and it is completely organic and healthy for our children.

-        How to make an almond milk at home

You can make this healthy and delicious drink at home quickly, and the taste is simply divine! With a combination of two essential ingredients, nuts and water you can produce this refreshing and healthy drink that perfectly replaces cow milk and brings a great benefits to our body. Making healthy drink at home will bring benefits not just to us, but to our children also.

You can add the almond milk to any smoothies based on bananas or to use for cooking healthy pudding such as berry or chocolate-banana, or produce it only for drinking.

Ingredients:

Almonds (raw) - 150 gr.

Water - 1.5 liters

Natural sweetener - for example, coconut sugar (2 tbsp).

Optionally - vanilla (powder or extract).

Gauze or thin cloth - for filtering the milk.

Blender (preferably stationary).
The sweetener should be used in order to achieve more intense taste, but many do not need it because the goal is to produce refreshing slightly sweet and healthy milk. As a natural sweetener you can use: dates, coconut sugar, palm sugar, honey, agave syrup, stevia extract and other useful sugar substitutes.

If you use dates - a specified amount of almonds and water will need 3-4 pieces. Or coconut sugar - it's enough 2 tablespoons. Do not panic, it's not the same as 2 tablespoons of white sugar. It is natural sugar, and it is not so sweet to the taste.

Soak almonds in water for 8-10 hours, you can more if you wish. After this step, drain the water and rinse the almonds. This is important, because when soaking nuts in the water, pesticides and other chemistry come out, if there is any. Put all the ingredients into the blender - almonds, water, sugar + extract of vanilla (drops 10). Requires a great speed of 1-2 minutes. Next, we process the milk. Take a jar and on top of it place a gauze. Pour the milk gently through the gauze into the jar. At the end press the gauze to extract the last drop of milk and the almond milk is ready! Enjoy! You should have 1.5 l of milk out of 150 g of almonds. You should keep it in the refrigerator a couple of days.

The almond milk comes with a great benefits. Primarily, the milk do not contain lactose and therefore no cause for allergy or cholesterol. It is also rich in calcium, which is necessary for strengthening the bones, which is extremely important for children in their development. For adults, positively affects the cardiovascular system and the omega acids normalize blood pressure and reduce the risk of developing heart disease. There is a vitamin D in the milk, which opposes the occurrence of osteoporosis.