Yogurt As Essential Nutrient for Healthy I
100 million live bacteria willing to help
Plain or with fruit, sour or sweet, creamy or liquid, either alone or as a garnish, yogurt has exerted its salutary powers for more than two thousand years. With reason, Pliny the Elder, called it divine and miraculous food.
The secret? Inside there are over 100 million live bacteria willing to help us against infections.
It is healthy, nutritious and in the kitchen can prepare yogurt sauces, salads and desserts to make its special touch. We invite you to know you better.
The origin of yogurt is in Turkey although there who puts it in the Balkans, Bulgaria and Central Asia. It is believed that consumption precedes the beginning of agriculture. Nomadic people carrying fresh milk obtained from animals in bags usually made of goatskin.
The heat and contact with skin milk goat favored the growth of acid bacteria fermented milk. The milk is turned into a semi solid coagulated mass.
Once consumed the yeast milk content in those bags, they are again filled with fresh milk into fermented milk again transformed by unprecedented waste. Convitió yogurt is the staple food of nomadic peoples for ease of transport and storage.
Its healthy virtues were already known in Antiquity
They say that Genghis Khan, the famous twelfth-century Mongol warrior, he fed his invincible army “Kumis” a kind of mildly alcoholic fermented milk with a flavor similar to beer that is now very popular in Russia to combat sanatoriums tuberculosis.