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Copper and The Summer (January – February 2003)

THIS SUMMER, BEER AND ICE CREAM... HOW ARE THEY RELATED TO COPPER?

With the intense heat of the summer, who does not fancy a cold beer or having an ice cream to cool down?

The consumption of these products are increasing during this season.

The raw materials such as: wheat, barley, milk, lard, etc have a content of copper. People should consume this products because  the body does not produce it; This is obtained from the food mentioned and is absorbed in the stomach and the duodenum.

Copper is not only found in certain food,, it is also found in the process of beer as a result of fermented alcohol using yeast through the process of germination,  drying and toasting of the barley grains, to which has been added hops and cook in copper pans.

The homemade elaboration of beer dates from 4,000 years BC. Likewise, the use of copper is allied to the development of a product accepted world wide.

Copper is versatile, in force and found upon human feeding and health.

 

In relation to the ice creams , the ancient Romans are the inventors of the sherbet. In the centuries XVI and XVII in the Courts of Spain, France and England, ice cream was prepared and served.

The raw materials, principally milk and lard are mixed in the beginning of the process and then are pasteurised, after a thermical treatment is applied to kill bacteria, subsequently the mixture is homogenized at different pressures depending n the product to elaborate. The maturing process continues to obtain the own characteristics of the ice cream (fragrance, taste, colour, etc). Finally, the product is frozen.

To pasteurise is the most important phase in the preparation of the ice creams and the bactericidal property of the copper are targeted to eliminate bacteria.

The copper does not allow the growth micro-organisms.

Several experiments have taken place to study the effect of virus and bacteria such as polio, legion Ella, pseudomonas fluorescents, bacillus subtilisss, etc. confirm the anti-bacteria action.

In all cases the growth of new bacteria was inhibited and in some cases, the bacteria ws reduced 100%.




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