• Believe it or not , the Bible mentions yoghurt in Genesis , where Abraham fed it to his Guest . The chronicle of yogurt is a long one - Assyrians eat it for wellness , and John Harvey Kellogg encouraged yogurt enemas at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan ( though the less enounce about that the good ) .
• But yogurt has many other use : Cleopatra attributed her beauty to yogurt baths , and Pliny the Elder reports that Iranian women bump it beneficial for their skin ( related bonus fact : in Iran , sour , thick fermented Milk River is phone mast , of which one of the most popular brand is " Mickey Mast " ) .
• It was n’t until the early 1900s though that the " secret " of fermented milk was discovered by Russian scientist Elie Metchnikoff , who study Bulgarian yogurt in run tubes at the Pasteur Institute . Their yoghurt control Bacillus bulgaricus , which , Metchnikoff resolve , chased out the " wild , putrefying bacilli in our large gut . " Now … who ’s hungry?• Of naturally , people just ca n’t go around selling bacterial cowboy to fill out up and clear out your wiley intestines without some ordinance - harmonize to the U.S. FDA , " yogurt " must be refrigerated and containLactobacillus bulgaricusandStreptococcus thermophiluscultures from dairy farm ingredients . The same identity is not required for frozen yoghourt , although they too may contain hot cultures.• For those of you who enjoy fruit with your yogurt , you’re able to give thanks the Dannon troupe , who first added fruit to its mixtures in 1946 . Dannon is actually a Spanish company founded in 1919 by Isaac Carasso , who do from the Balkans where yoghurt was a staple fiber . He introduced it to Barcelona and call it " Danone , " intend " Little Daniel " after his son . The rest is history .
• Not to be scoop , Yoplait also made a major donation to the humanity of yogurt : the disposable container . Unfortunately , some of these have become a little too disposable : according to a subject area by Wrap ( Waste and Resources Action Programme)we discombobulate awaymore than nine million yogurt and yogurt drinks - unopened - a week . That ’s almost a tenth of the 100 million pots sell each hebdomad .
• What ’s in a name ? " Way back during the mid-1980sfrozen yogurt wars , there was a chain phone I Ca n’t Believe It ’s Yogurt , which sued contend chemical chain TCBY because the letter put up for This Ca n’t Be Yogurt . Unperturbed , TCBY dexterously lurch its underlying name to The Country ’s Best Yogurt , retain the well - established abbreviation , and went on its merry yoghourt - vending way of life . ( Few of us now remember the third fro - yo warrior , YSCCMTTIIFY , which stand for : You only Can not Convince Me That This Is in Fact Yogurt!)"• Do you favor your yoghourt stocky or lightness and creamy ? A ingenious Fage billboard in 2008 along the Macy ’s Day Parade path made it count as if a Tweetyballoon get stuckin some deliciously dense yoghurt .
• Ricky Gervais ' friend and podcast co - host Karl Pilkington sums up the future of yogurt as such : " scientist forecast that one Clarence Day you’re able to arouse up and eat up a yogurtyou could have a schmoose with . " And that , ladies and gentlemen , is that .
• What is your preferent kind of yogurt , and do you eat it plain or with other foods ? I smother my Amerind lulu with it and favor Grecian - dash yoghurt , although a fruity yogurt loving cup is also always welcomed ! Yogurt - haters are welcome to comment , too - I used to be in your ingroup !
‘ Dietribes ’ appear every other Wednesday . Food pic taken byJohanna Beyenbach . You might think that name from our post about hercolorful diet .
