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Yogurt: A Complete Food

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

YoghurtOne of the most delicious and nutritious dessert there is the yogurt. Its unique flavor and beneficial bacteria, great for the immune system, have been essential in human nutrition for centuries. So much so that many experts believe that yogurt was known long before agriculture. Moreover, not only is delicious as a dessert, alone or with sugar, jam, honey or fruit, is also an essential ingredient in many pasta sauces, salads and meats.

History
The name originates from the yogurt in a Bulgarian word ‘jaurt’. It is precisely from the Balkans and Asia Minor from which this dish dairy. Nomadic tribes soon realized that milk became a semi-solid mass that carried in goatskin bags, because heat and contact with skin milk goat fermentation encouraged by the action of acid bacteria .

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