to reassons related more to general health improvement. The Morinaga Milk Industry Company launched
a bifidus milk in Japan in 1977, and a bifidus yogurt in 1979, while Yakult launched
a fluid yogurt called MilMil in Japan in 1978, containing Bifidobacterium breve,
Bifidobacterium bifidum, and Lactobacillus. acidophilus.