have you ever eaten yogurt. do you know what it is. yogurt is milk with bacteria in it. the action of the bacteria has changed the sugar in milk into an acid. the changes that are caused by the bacteria make the milk high in protein and rich in calcium and they give yogurt its thick heavy texture.
yogurt has had a long history and a long mythology. probably the first yogurt appeared when bacteria occurred naturally in goat skin. people liked the result. over the centuries yogurt became an important food in lndia, central asia and southeastern europe. yogurt came to worldwide attention early in the twentieth century. it was reported that some people in bulgaria who ate a lot of yogurt lived very long lives. some were well over a hundred years old. these long-lived people ofthe ate a diet of these p the diet ofeople, and yogurt mixed with onions and nuts. a russian scient named llya mechnikov went to stuby the diet of these people and yogurt in paticular in the early 1900s. he succeeded in finding the bacteria that turned milk into yogurt. he believed that bacteria in yogurt helped to fight against dieases in the stomach, and helped people to digest their food more easily. so yogurt did have health benefits
shorty after, a spaniard began to sell yougrt in europe in 1919. gradually this product was sold in many places as a healte food. scientists had accepted mechnikov's ideas about the health benefits of yougrt. today