Super practical for breakfast, this yogurt which seems to us to have many health benefits, would be a little less virtuous than it seems when we look at the number of calories it contains, according to UFC-Que Choisir. According to the association, it even has more calories than a soda!
Taking care of your health also involves adopting a good diet, which is varied and balanced, where you avoid foods that contain carcinogenic additives, fruits and vegetables richest in pesticides and foods which contain pesticides, while giving pride of place to dairy products. It is also recommended to consume 2 per day by varying the products, which is why some consume them from the morning to breakfast. As winter approaches, there is a yogurt that is particularly popular and is often consumed in the morning to strengthen the immune system:Actimel.
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If consuming this shot every day when you wake up that you take for yogurt (which is actually a fermented milk drink) may seem like a good idea to avoid getting sick when it starts to get cold, these virtues come from be called into question by the consumer association UFC-Que Choisir. She revealed an analysis of the new version of Actimel which is coming out this fall to mark the brand’s 30th anniversary: Actimel Triple Action. Enriched with vitamins D and C, as well as magnesium to support the immune system, the Actimel Triple action shot now contains ““20 billion L. casei bacteria” compared to 10 billion previously”explains the consumer association. A change leading us to believe that it is even better for health, while the association highlights that it is “twice as many calories as Coca-Cola”.
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Here is the yogurt we believe to be healthy which is “twice as many calories as Coca-Cola”according to UFC-Que Choisir
As the consumer association points out, the recipe for this fermented drink may claim its content in vitamins, magnesium and good bacteria, but it turns out that this dairy product is “excessively sweet”.
As UFC-Que Choisir explains to us, Actimel turns out to be “almost twice as many calories as Coca-Cola”. Its caloric recipe barely obtains a Nutri-Score D, narrowly escaping the Nutri-Score E, solely thanks to the presence of proteins. In addition, the association, which independently tests thousands of commercial products, claims that its list of ingredients displays several ingredients “very disreputable”including oligofructose, dextrose, modified starch, citric acid and sodium citrate.
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Actimel: a “yogurt” shot for immunity not really better than another yogurt for health, according to UFC-Que Choisir
That being said, UFC-Que Choisir explains that the usefulness of these “good bacteria” still raises questions in view of the scientific studies cited as proof by the brand, including “many of these are financed by the company itself”specifies the association. She also concludes that “the benefit for human health of consuming L. casei yogurts is not currently clearly demonstrated”taking up the assertion of the microbiologist from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Inrae), Philippe Langella.
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Finally, the conclusions of the UFC-Que Choisir investigation add that the famous Actimel has never been compared to a classic drinking yogurt, only to an unfermented milk. “The health effects, if they exist, could therefore be produced not by the strain of L. casei patented by Danone, but simply by the bacteria L. bulgaricus and S. thermophilus, present in any yogurt”assures the consumer association. We must be aware of this vagueness which weighs on the virtues of this flagship breakfast drink in autumn-winter.
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