Yogurt is a sour-milk product that combines the amazing taste and healing properties that children especially like, and children rarely make mistakes in choosing. What is so fond of this product to the people of our planet, what is its health benefit? How to make a choice and can yogurt be prepared at home?.

Yogurt is tasty and useful - this is its main virtue. It is also undeniable that it is consumed in many countries of the world, although the origin of yogurt is not completely clear.

Who invented yogurt?.

The word "yogurt" in translation from Turkic means "condensed". Scythians and other nomadic peoples transported milk on the backs of horses and donkeys in wineskins - animal skin bags. Bacteria that get into the milk from the air and wool, fermented it in the heat, and a constant shaking while driving whipped the milk to a thick mass. The product was not spoiled for a long time and kept all its useful properties.

The homeland of yogurt is the Balkan Peninsula. Ancient Thracians, receiving milk from sheep, began to mix fresh milk with sour, using the latter as a starter. The product was stored much longer.

Challenging the championship of production of yogurt Bulgarians. From horse milk they made a koumiss drink, and later, settling on the Balkan peninsula, they began to breed sheep and make yogurt from their milk. But the Indians say that they had a similar drink long before the appearance of the Balkan yogurt.

In Europe, yogurt came in the 16th century as a remedy to help the French king Louis XI, who suffered from stomach disease. A doctor brought the king Balkan yogurt, which quickly relieved the sufferer from an intestinal disorder. In gratitude, the prudent king began to spread information about a miraculous product that has healing properties.

It would be more correct to consider that the magic product appeared at different times in different parts of the world and, time-tested, came to us under the name "yogurt" to make our food more useful.

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