Anyone for horse milk ice cream? It could be good for your gut

[Still Waters]

A new study has explored the possible health benefits of using the milk of female horses in ice cream. The frozen treat is more traditionally made up of cow's milk and cream, but by swapping in the milk of mares, they discovered it was possible to get more good bacteria swirled into the mix.

If you’re going to milk animals and churn the liquid into delicious desserts, it makes sense to look for wiggle room where we can make things a bit healthier. One way you can do that is with something called inulin, a type of prebiotic that doesn’t get digested in the stomach, but feeds the good bacteria in the gut. 

https://www.iflscience.com/anyone-for-horse-milk-ice-cream-it-could-be-good-for-your-gut-75477

The study is published in PLoS ONE.

[Waspie_Dwarf]

3 hours ago, Still Waters said:

A new study has explored the possible health benefits of using the milk of female horses in ice cream.

I'm not sure why they felt the need to include the word, "female," in this sentence, you don't tend to get get milk from male horses... or any male mammal for that matter.