This yoghurt-based drink is both delicious and healthy, making it the perfect accompaniment to your meals. A far better and cheaper alternative to soda based drinks. You can drink it plain, with a little salt, with herbs, with spices or even sweetened and flavored. Making it a part of your daily diet confers long term health benefits so make sure you have buttermilk always at hand.
1. 1. Helps calm the stomach after a spicy meal
Made with cool, watered down curd, this drink is perfect to soothe the stomach. As you drink it the cool buttermilk tends to wash down the spices and calms an irritated stomach lining.
2. 2. Improves digestion
The spices in chaas are excellent digestive aids that prevent indigestion. Yoghurt is loaded with probiotics, which encourage the growth of healthy gut flora. This will improve everything from your digestion to your immunity
3. 3. Boosts your calcium intake
Adding just 1 glass of chaas to your daily diet can boost your calcium intake by 350 mg.
4. 4. Brings about a drop in cholesterol
Suffering from high cholesterol and want to lower it naturally? Try having chaas. components in chaas or buttermilk are very effective in keeping your cholesterol levels under check.
5. 5. Washes down fats
Drinking chaas after your meal will make you feel better, since it washes down the oil, butter and ghee that coat your oesophagus and stomach, making you feel much lighter.