Is there a alcoholic beverage healthy? In Mexico, many people say that this is the pulque. It is an ancestral fermented product to which the aztecs gave an origin divine. How did you go from the first drink to occupying such a secondary position? Does it really have all the benefits as it is said? Read on and discover her amazing story!
Pulque: divine blood
It is the drink that the Aztecs used to offer to their gods. It was of great importance due to its appearance ritual and the presumed benefits it brought to the health. However, this milky liquid was relegated by other drinks from the the twenty's. The competition with tequila, mezcal and beer (especially) it was very hard when Mexico opened up to the importation of beverages. Thus, the manufacturers of these s were in charge of reviling the pulque stating that its production process was unhygienic.
The general public stopped consuming it for fear to get sick The result was that this drink (which ranges between 4 and 8 degrees of alcohol) became associated with the most poor y dangerous from Mexico. However, today he has been reborn in the hands of many enthusiasts. There are even pulquerías-pubs that use it as a claim. There are even those who maintain that drinking it regularly brings health benefits. On what is this statement based?
The decline
Pulque comes from agave, just like tequila. However, the species is different. In this case it is called pulque agave or Maguey. This was the name of a goddess and the Aztecs conceived of pulque as her blood. It is a plant that takes about ten years to grow and mature, after which a mead of the plant. This is fermented through a traditional process. Thus, this very natural process makes many people think about possible health benefits.
Obviously, they also play an important role Myths from the time before colonization. That is why many attribute to it the ability to heal problems gastrointestinal. It is also said to have a effect probiotic and that it can combat anemia. Others maintain that it can combat insomnia. However, there are much more preposterous and dangerous claims. A clear example is recommending it to pregnant women with the hope of increasing the production and quality of milk maternal.
Is there evidence that it is a healthy alcoholic beverage?
However, there is no solid scientific evidence that pulque can do this. These sentences are actually anecdotal cases that have not been submitted to any study. The only relevant one that exists was carried out in 1946 And it does confirm some nutritional benefits. However, we must take them with tweezers. That is, the drink is alcoholic and there is no amount considered safe for this substance by medicine.
This was carried out in the Otomí indigenous population of the Mezquital Valley. analyzed to Adult 100 during a week and came to some conclusions. The daily intake of pulque (up to two liters) provided consumers with calories (12%), total protein (6%), Thiamin (10%), riboflavin (24%), niacin (23%), vitamin C (48%), football (8%) and iron (51%). However, two liters of a drink between 4 and 8 degrees of alcohol is an amount that no one can consider healthy if consumed daily. What do you think? do you think a alcoholic beverage can it be beneficial for health?
