Yogurt History
Yogurt which is also well-known as yoghurt, yogourt, yoghurd as a culture milk product has been a primary food in the Middle East for more than 4500 years ago. The word is from the Turkish Yogen, meaning thick. Now, it is consumed by most people in the world.
The first
yogurt were possibly spontaneously fermented by the Bulgars, a nomadic people who settled in the Balkans at the last of 17th century by wild microorganism existing on the goat skin bags bring by them.
In Central European, South Eastern European, Central Asian, Western Asian and South Asian,
Yogurt was a main food in diet program since 1900s.
In French medical story noted when a doctor treated a patient who got an acute diarrhea with yogurt which French doctor could treated before.
In 1947, the Dannon company combine this kind of dessert with strawberry jam and presented as a sweetened yogurt.
Then in 1950,when Gayelord Hauser – one of the health guru at that period issued his book “ Look Younger, Live Longer “ and promoted yogurt as
a wonder food made yogurt got a lot of people attention.
The production of yogurt got a phenomenon 500% as result of the rising in sales of yogurt by 1968.
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