Health Drinks and Food Preservatives

Soyapower Plus soy milk maker, rice milk maker, nut milk makerJoyoung CTS1048 Automatic Hot Soy Milk MakerOur main moto is to supply drinks good for healthy living to health conscious customers.

Insight in to Food Preservatives.

Food preservatives are added to increases the life of a product, these preservatives are added to food products to prevent decomposition due to adverse chemical change or microbial action

Natural Preservatives:
Salting, Drying , Freezing, Pickling are healthy way of preserving food. Sugar, Salt, Vinegar, Turmeric are natural preservatives and these doesn't have harmful effects on human body.

Artificial Preservatives: These chemical preservatives are most effective in increasing product life. These chemical substance stops growth of bacteria, yeast and fungus in food and also avoid oxidation of food.

* Benzoates (such as sodium benzoate, benzoic acid)
* Nitrites (such as sodium nitrite)
* Sulphites (such as sulphur dioxide)
* Sorbates (such as sodium sorbate, potassium sorbate

Benzoates are added in Soft drinks, fruit juices, meat products. This preservative is banned in Russia, this causes skin rashes, allergies asthama and brain damage.
Butylates and Butylated hydroxyanisole are mainly added in pork and pork sausages, potato chips, instant teas, cake mixes. This causes high blood pressure and cholesterol level. This can affect the kidney and liver function.
Harmful effects to health from these chemical substance are endless.

Many products we consume in day to day life contains these chemical preservatives and cumulatively adds up. Artificial preservatives are used in many products like bread, potato chips, soft drinks, ketch ups, Salad dressings and many more.
How are we going to control or limit the intake of these chemical substances?

Always prefer fresh vegetables over frozen vegetables. Fresh fruits and fruits juices over canned and flavored juices. Ice creams, Soya milk, fruit juices can be made alternatives to soft drinks.

Remember a healthy body leads to a healthy mind.
Our focus is to produce fresh and healthy products and we say "NO" to ARTIFICIAL PRESERVATIVES and "YES" to HEALTHY BODY".

Soya and Athletics

UNDER ARMOUR Adult Team Duffle,Black,23" X 11" X 12"UNDER ARMOUR Adult Team Duffle,Graphite,23" X 11" X 12"Silk Soy Milk Plain Aseptic, 32-ounces (Pack of6)Now Foods Instant Soy Milk Powder, 20-OunceHealthy Sexy Hair Soy Milk Cocoa Shampoo by Sexy Hair, 10.1 Ounce

Athletes, Tennis players rather any sport persons needs faster recovery and have to regain their energy level and perform well in their sports competitions.

Many times at National level Athletic championship, I used to run five races in 3 days time period. 800mts: heats(day 1), 800mts:semifinals, finals(day 2), 1500mts:semifinals, finals(day 3).
After each race I was advised by my coach to drink lots of orange juices and to eat bananas which are rich supplement of carbohydrates.
After sports training and workouts, body's stores of glycogen ( carbohydrate that is stored in the muscles and liver) are depleted. If you don't replenish them, your body won't recover properly and your performance will suffer during your next workout or competitions.

Recovery food allows the body to replenish energy stores and repair damaged tissues. Most of the carbohydrates rich food like banana are also rich is sugar which may increase sugar level if your are not a intense long distance runner .

Consuming combination of protein and carbohydrates within 30min after your workouts helps is faster recovery of muscles and to regain glycogen in body.
Soya products are good source of protein with very little fat which is a must for sports person.

An experiment.

A common Soya ice cream that anybody can make

Equipment:
- Blender or food processor
- Ice cream machine (the kind with the tub you chill in the freezer works fine, and they cost less than $50)

Ingredients:
1 tetra box firm silken tofu (like Mori-Nu) -or- 8 ounces soy yogurt
Between 3/4 to 1 cup plain soy milk
1/3 cup maple syrup or brown rice syrup (or a combination)
2 tsp vanilla


Directions:
Combine all 4 main ingredients in a blender or food processor and blend until thoroughly combined and smooth. Blend in any desired flavoring ingredients (see below). Pour into your ice cream machine, and freeze following the manufacturer's instructions.

Add-ins:
For various flavors, add to the food processor:

For Banana Soy Ice Cream, blend in 2 ripe bananas

For Strawberry Soy Ice Cream, blend in 12-16 frozen and partially thawed strawberries.

For Pineapple Soy Ice Cream, blend in 1 can or 1 cup of pineapple (well drained). You may want more sweeteners.

For Ginger Soy Ice Cream, add either 1/4 cup preserved ginger or 1 to 2 inches grated fresh ginger (for preserved ginger, add to food processor so it gets ground up).

Use your imagination to come up with new flavors!

Flavored liqueurs or syrups are a great way to add punch. Try creame de menthe and chocolate chips, or coffee liqueur, or instant coffee powder...

Homemade Soya vanilla ice cream

Ingredients:
1 cup soymilk
1/3 cup maple syrup (pure dark amber)
1/2 cup sugar (white granulated, make it a very light 1/2 cup)
3-5 drops vanilla extract (to taste)

Directions:
1 Pour all the ingredients into an ice cream maker.
2 Follow the instructions on your ice cream maker, and put it in the freezer. You can store it in any container.

Chilled Soya Thandai Milk

Ingredients:
3 cups Soya milk
1 tablespoon cashews
1 tablespoon almonds
1 tablespoon poppy seed
1 tablespoon fennel seed
5 peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
6 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon rose water
Directions:
1 Blanch and peel the almonds.
2 Soak all the ingredients (except sugar and rose water) in water for about four hours. Grind into a fine paste.
3 Add the paste to cold Soya milk and strain through a muslin cloth. Discard the residue.
4 Add sugar and rose water to the strained Soya milk. Chill the thandai and serve with ice.

Nutrition Facts:

Serving Size 1 (413g)
Recipe makes 2 servings

Calories 417
Calories from Fat 121 (29%)
Amount per Serving %DV
Total Fat 13.5g 20%
Saturated Fat 1.6g 8%
Monounsaturated Fat 4.5g
Polyunsaturated Fat 5.0g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 242mg 10%
Potassium 587mg 16%
Total Carbohydrate 60.6g 20%
Dietary Fiber 7.0g 28%
Sugars 40.6g
Protein 19.0g 38%

Vanilla Soy Ice-cream

Ingredients:
1 cup powdered sugar
4 egg yolks (or 1/2 cup egg beaters)
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 cups soymilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
1 Put the eggs yolks, sugar, and corn starch into a bowl; whisk the mixture together.
2 Heat the soy milk; slowly pour the hot soy milk into the mixture while continuing to beat.
3 Add the vanilla extract.
4 Gently heat the mixture until it thickens.
5 Let the mixture cool in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
6 Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker; make ice cream following the instructions of the machine.
7 Note: I'm not sure exactly how much ice cream this yields, but I made it in my 1 1/2 quart ice cream maker and there was room to spare!

Nutrition Facts:

Recipe makes 4 servings
Calories 235
Calories from Fat 57 (24%)
Amount per Serving %DV
Total Fat 6.4g (9%)
Saturated Fat 1.8g (8%)
Monounsaturated Fat 2.3g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.6g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 188mg (62%)
Sodium 75mg (3%)
Potassium 170mg (4%)
Total Carbohydrate 37.2g (12%)
Dietary Fiber 1.6g (6%)
Sugars 30.2g Protein 7.9g (15%)