Dahi ke Fayde

About Curd (Yogurt or Dahi)
Curd/Yogurt (also called as yoghurt or yoghourt) or dahi is counted as the world’s healthiest food because of its amazing health benefits. It is prepared at home using milk or fermented milk products through the process of bacterial fermentation of the milk (or yogurt cultures). During fermentation process, bacteria produce lactic acid from the lactose of milk and give milk a thick texture.


Generally, the cow milk is used to make yogurt all across the world. Milk of buffalo, goats, camels and etc are also used at many places. Dairy yogurt is made by using the culture of bacteria called Lactobacillus delbrueckii. Eating yogurt is preferred by the people all across the world as it aids lot of benefits to the digestive system. It is used in India in many rituals during the pooja ceremony. It is used to make various recipes to enhance their flavor and look.


Benefits of Curd/Yogurt (Dahi)

Curd/Yogurt or dahi is a delicious food preferred by almost all the people with breakfast, lunch or dinner. As it provides more calcium and other nutrients than milk, it is most liked by the people to get more health benefits. Some of the health benefits of the yogurt are mentioned below:

Fulfills Calcium and Vitamin D Requirement
Adding curd to the diet makes it a balanced diet and considered as the adequate nutrition which plays major role in preventing the osteoporosis as it contains more calcium and vitamin D.

Makes Bones and Teeth Healthy and Strong
Calcium is very important component of making the bone and teeth healthy and strong.

Makes Skeletal System Strong
Curd has both, the calcium and vitamin D which have great skeletal benefits in combined form.

Manages Normal Blood Pressure
Eating yogurt on regular basis helps in managing the normal blood pressure.

Keeps Digestive System Healthy
It makes the digestive system healthy and strong by helping in various problems like lactose intolerance, diarrhea, constipation, inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer and gastro intestinal infections.

Improves Immunity
It boosts the body immune system and prevents from various infections by stimulating the infection fighting white blood cells.

Prevents from Ulcer
It prevents from the ulcer of stomach and small intestine and decreases the risk of stomach cancer.

Prevents from Vaginal Infections
It prevents from the vaginal infections of Candida or Yeast among women with diabetes.

Makes Digestion Easy
It is easy to digest food and best for the people who do not like milk or lactose intolerance as the fermentation process breaks down the lactose into glucose and galactose.

Keeps Colon Healthy
It is a healthy food which makes the colon healthy and lowers the risk of colon cancer as it contains the lactobacteria (intestine friendly bacterial).

Reduces Risk of Viral and Allergic Disorders
It prevents from the viral and allergic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.

Improves Helpful Intestinal Bacteria
Helpful bacteria found in it replenish the intestines and prevent from the harmful bacteria.

Contains Healthy Protein
It is also a good source of easy to digest protein (10-14 g protein/8 ounce) than the same amount of milk.

Lowers Blood Cholesterol Level
It has ability to lower the blood cholesterol level thus prevents from the variety of heart diseases and strokes.

Loaded with Vitamins
It is loaded with number of vitamins like riboflavin, vitamin B5, B12 which helps in maintaining the health of red blood cells and nervous system.

Energetic Food
It is a highly energetic food which helps to recover faster after the hard work out.

Control Blood Sugar Level
It has good quality protein and live bacterial cultures which enable it to control the blood sugar level.

Enhances Gastric Juice Production
It enhances the HCL production in the stomach to improve the digestion and nutrients (vitamins and minerals) absorption.