Soy Yogurt For Controlling Blood Glucose

The latest good news for more than 150 millions people around the world with diabetes is that soy yogurt is good for them. Enzymes in the yogurt help control blood sugar levels. It started when the researchers want to test the different types of yogurt effect on enzymes, alpha-amylase and alpha-glucosidase, which are involved in carbohydrate digestion. By obstructing the enzyme task will help reduce speed of carbohydrate digestion process. That is consequently slowing the rise in blood glucose after eating. The researchers found that soy yogurt had higher level of enzyme than the regular fruit yogurt.

The researchers also did the test to know how the various yogurts affected another enzyme, angiotensin-I converting enzyme. This enzyme can cause blood pressure raise and blood vessel to narrow.
The soy yogurt, plain yogurt and some of fruits like strawberry, blueberry and peach were tested to assess how they can obstruct these three enzymes.

And the result shown blueberry dairy yogurt and plain soy yogurt were the best at blocking all three enzymes with the highest phenol content. As we know, soy products and fruit have natural composite phenols. Phenols are also available in tea, dark chocolate and red wine. It is good for health working better, including for blood.�

However there are no researches on how much the fruit soy yogurt should be consumed to see the improvement in blood pressure or blood glucose. So you also still must concern about the carbohydrate content �as well while you are consuming yogurt as a meal.

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