~Fatin Shaziera~: Yakult~ Yakult~~

8^th December 2014

Today we went to Yakult Factory which is located at Seremban 2. I am extremely excited to go there. As we arrived, we were bring to a lecture room. A young Chinese woman explains to us the history, specialty and advantages if we drink Yakult for our life.

From the explanations I know that, the optimum temperature for the probiotic is from 15°C to 37°C. The probiotic will dead at temperature 41° C and so on. And it remain not active at temperature -80°C to 14°C.

The active shirota strain will convert the lactose to lactic acid and give the taste of sour to the Yakult.

The benefits of Yakult are :

· Increase good bacteria and reduce harmful bacteria in our intestine

· Improve bowel movement (avoid diarrhea and constipation)

· Boosts on immune system (reduce risk of infections and cancer cell occurance)

From the explanation I know that Yakult keep our intestine with balance intestinal flora. It can reduce risk of infections, aging, unbalanced diet and stress.

She also explained about the relationship between good bacteria and harmful bacteria in order to maintain our health and intestinal flora.

After that, we have been show the process of making Yakult from beginning until the packaging level. The production of bottles also complicated as they want to produce a good product to Malaysians.

As for me, I think Yakult is a very good additional drinks because it contain probiotic that is Lactobaccilus which isolated by Prof. Mizoru Shirota.

And from this trip, I know that the packaging or the bottles in our country is different compare to the other countries. The Chinese woman said that, it is due to the late registration of the bottles in Malaysia as in Malaysia we already have a bottle similar like Yakult’s bottles in the other country that is Vitagen.