Hi WIEL,

Your question:
Hi Mr Moreless

In your last post about essence of life I noticed that you mentioned Buttermilk. You did not always mention it in posts on essence of life. And it seems you never recommend yogurt.

The picture below is the nutritional content of the buttermilk I seem to only find. Not every groceries carry it. Even some of the large ones do not carry it.

Ingredients: Milk ingredients, Salt, bacterial culture.


My first concern is the quality. The list of ingredients does not say it is made with milk, but with milk ingredients, What the $%#@ does it mean? I think it is a way to hide the fact that they use extracted elements of milk that are later added in the process. But I may be wrong.

Answer: Depending upon if they add butter flakes to call it old fashion buttermilk on just use skim milk and make cultured buttermilk may be some of the reason for how ingredinets may be listed? End.

And my second concern is the (sodium) salt.

Answer: Salt may be added to flavor cultured buttermilk.

Real Fresh buttermilks has had salt added in the process of making the butter, thus salt may be a natural by product of the butter making process?

What may be unique about this Salt(sodium) in cultured buttermilk may be that this Sodium has been pre-digested with the milk proteins, Calcium etc and as the case may be, it then is more of a Natural source of Natural Sodium at this point in time! End.

On the other hand, the choice of yogurt is quite big, from the gimmicky 0% no fat yogurt which always have added chemicals to the fewer that are quite excellent. But to get excellent yogurt is a lot easier.

Example of no fat yogurt ingredients from the same company:Modified Milk Ingredients, Sugar, Peaches, Modified Corn Starch, Carrageenan, Pectin, Natural and Artificial Flavours, Colour, Active Bacterial Cultures.

My question for someone who would like to get less sodium, why would buttermilk be still preferable than yogurt? Are the Buttermilk proteins better digestible than the yogurt's?

Are the Buttermilk bacterial cultures better than the yogurt's?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

WIEL

Answer: Commercial Yogurt has White Sugar or Corn Syrup or Artificial Sweetners added to give it a plesent taste to Sell more!

Buttermilk does not have these sweetners added!

Most Commercial Yogurt also has all the other additives added to it, which are NOT Natural!

Eating Yogurt may cause ones Lymphatic fluids to become more Acidic!

Test it out and report back on what you Personally find out!

Whereas cultured buttermilk taken with Top Quality Honey as it's sweetner may raise ones pH!

The Bacteria cultures may also vary somewhat, depending upon what ingredients have been added to the yogurt?

What I have found in order to avoid most of these additives is that I just make my own cultured buttermilk by planning a little ahead!

All one needs to do is get some Good basic buttermilk without additives added, just the basic milk, salt with bacteria culture and use this as a starter for my own buttermilk!

Use one part of this to three parts of skim milk and add some rock salt(or other un-refined salt) and mix and let set warm on counter for 24 hours till it has Clabbered!

Then stir the Clabber up to break the Clabber to make it easy to pour in a suitable container and place this into the refrigerator for keeping until it is used up!

I always start another gallon using 1/3 of this fresh buttermilk as starter for my next batch!

Fresh skim milk is cheaper than cultured buttermilk, so I save on cost and avoid any additives added to some kinds of buttermilk!

I drink mostly cultured buttermilk vs used to drink skim milk!

If I had a milk cow like I used to, I would use Whole Fresh Milk to make my buttermilk!

But, alas one cannot do everything one would like to do and must make the best, with what we have avaliable!

I find that taking this buttermilk along with my extra mix of Kelp & BSM and Lime water mix, helps provide the needed bacteria to better digest the Kelp mix!

I find if I take too much of my Kelp mix without the addition of this buttermilk, may give digestion problems?

This is because of the Alkalinity of the kelp mix and needing More stomach acids to properly digest this mix!

Cause and Effect!

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