How to save your fragile stomach after a big meal? 11 probiotics reviews

After eating and drinking a lot throughout the Spring Festival, how is your stomach?

Many friends with fragile stomachs suffer a lot during the Spring Festival holiday. Faced with a table full of delicious food, if they eat a little more, they will have stomach pain, bloating, and indigestion.

Some friends eat a lot but are troubled by constipation and are very anxious.

Some people eat a lot of meat and fish during the holiday, and when they scale themselves, they find they have gained three pounds.

Some people choose to take probiotics when faced with problems such as constipation, indigestion of greasy food, etc.

So, are probiotics that cost hundreds of dollars just a waste of money, or can they really solve the problem?

Dad's Test selected 11 popular adult probiotic powders this time, including Internet celebrity products, as well as traditional big-name health products and pharmaceutical brands. They were evaluated from three dimensions: ingredient analysis, number of live bacteria, and real-life measurements.

Let’s take a look at the result together——

Every time the editor consumes probiotics on impulse, it is after a hearty meal of "fishing on the bottom of the sea"

After reading the introduction to probiotics, she began to believe that the bloating caused by eating too much, the diarrhea before reporting, and the constipation caused by eating too little vegetables could all be solved.

Is this really the case?

The common probiotic powders on the market are mostly composed of probiotics and prebiotics. The strains, quantities and prebiotic additions of the 11 samples purchased this time are as follows:

These 11 probiotics all have prebiotics added.

Prebiotics can help your bowels move around, perhaps saving you from spending so much time on the toilet.

On the one hand, some oligosaccharides are food for probiotics, such as oligofructose and inulin, which can help probiotics grow and reproduce better.

On the other hand, when probiotics are consumed and broken down by prebiotics, they can soften the stool.

According to data released by the World Gastroenterology Organization, there is indeed strong evidence that some probiotics are effective in treating gastrointestinal problems such as irritable bowel syndrome and acute diarrhea in adults.

"Practice Guideline - Probiotics and Prebiotics"

But with 11 samples and so many strains, which one will really work? Is it better to add more strains?

Unfortunately, there is no standard answer to this question. And probiotic powder as food cannot be claimed to have therapeutic effects.

Even for the same probiotic, the comment section is polarized.

This is because the efficacy of probiotics is strain-specific, that is, the effect of the bacterial strain cannot ignore the string of letters and numbers behind it.

We recommend that you choose probiotics with specific strain numbers when purchasing them. Be careful when choosing probiotics such as No. 7, No. 8, and No. 9 that do not have specific strain numbers.

Number of viable bacteria.

Merchants often advertise that they have added billions or even tens of billions of probiotics to their products.

But this added value may be quite different from the amount of probiotics you put into your mouth.

Because probiotics are sensitive to temperature and environment.

Some live bacteria will be lost during the processing; even if the product is not opened, the number of live probiotics will decrease during storage.

Everyone should try to buy probiotics with a fresh production date, consume them as soon as possible after purchase, and do not stockpile.

The effective probiotic dosage in clinical trials is generally at least 108 CFU/d, which means a daily dose of more than 100 million.

Let’s take a look at whether these probiotics meet the standards.

First, the laboratory tests the actual number of live bacteria in the probiotics to see how many live probiotics are left after storage and transportation.

Except for No. 1 and No. 2, the number of live bacteria in other probiotics exceeds 100 million.

The actual number of probiotics measured in No. 7, No. 8, and No. 10 is much greater than the nominal number.

Although the number of probiotics in No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, and No. 9 decreased, the losses were all within an order of magnitude.

It is not difficult to survive in the packaging bag. The real test for probiotics is gastric juice and intestinal juice. In simple terms, the amount added is not equal to the amount of survival, and the amount of survival is not equal to the actual effective amount.

In order to show that their probiotics can survive in the gastric acid environment, merchants often say that they use crystal ball encapsulation technology, embedding technology, or strains that are resistant to gastric acid and bile.

After simulating digestion with artificial gastrointestinal fluid, the survival results of 11 probiotics are as follows:

Combined with the number of live bacteria in the first round, the ones that reached the stomach and intestines had better survival data were No. 2, No. 7, No. 8, No. 10, and No. 11, and the loss number was also within two orders of magnitude.

We specially invited 17 friends to try the effect of probiotics during the 7 days of Chinese New Year. (Originally it was 22, but some friends were quarantined.

An important point to make here is that the real-person trials are only very subjective feelings of our friends and do not represent any product efficacy. They are for reference only!

From the above reviews, we can see that most probiotics taste a bit like milk powder, and a few are flavored with fruits.

Although they all taste good, the actual effect varies from person to person.

According to the normal operation, I should write a comprehensive recommendation here. Since the number of live bacteria and the effect of probiotics are easily affected by the environment or the user himself, we recommend that you -

Is it really necessary to spend hundreds of dollars a month on probiotics? Wouldn't it be nice to spend hundreds of dollars on a hot pot meal?

For this purpose, we consulted a gastroenterologist.

Intestinal flora, beneficial bacteria account for about 20%, harmful bacteria account for about 10%, and opportunistic pathogens account for about 70%. Generally, as long as the beneficial bacteria are maintained at 20%, there will be no obvious discomfort. Therefore, there is no need to take probiotics in daily life.

People whose symptoms affect their quality of life, or patients with severe constipation or diarrhea, will use probiotics, such as Bifidobacterium and Bacillus subtilis.

But the prescription drugs in hospitals are different from the probiotics sold online.

As for the probiotic products we evaluated this time, No. 7 HengX and No. 8 Kang Ebei are health foods, and the other 9 are solid beverages.

There are two lines of big words written on the packaging of health foods: "Health foods are not medicines and cannot replace medicines to treat diseases."

Solid drinks are just ordinary food.

This time we have explained probiotics clearly. As for whether to take them or not, the choice is yours.

It’s okay to try probiotics, but if you have long-term gastrointestinal discomfort, you must seek medical attention immediately.

As for thinking that probiotics alone can help you lose weight and allow you to eat and drink as much as you want without gaining weight, you should just give up.

Editor | Tang Tang

Design | Sour

Source: Dad Review