Where did yogurt originate?

Historical evidence shows that yogurt has been used as food for at least 4500 years. The earliest yogurt may be milk packed in sheepskin bags by nomads, which was naturally fermented by bacteria attached to the bags and became yogurt. Although many countries claim that yogurt was invented by themselves, there is no strong evidence to show who was the first discoverer. Perhaps yogurt has been independently discovered many times.

According to1/kloc-0, the Turk Dictionary written by Mahmoud Kashigar and the book Fule Wisdom written by Yusuf Haas Hajiv recorded that Turks ate yogurt in the Middle Ages. These two books mention the word "yogurt" from different aspects, and record in detail the way that nomadic Turks use yogurt. The first record of yogurt in Europe originated from the clinical history of France: Francis I suffered from a severe dysentery, and the French doctors at that time were helpless. Allied Suleiman I sent him a doctor who claimed to have cured the patient with yogurt.

It was not until the twentieth century that yogurt became a food raw material in South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, Southeast Europe and Central Europe. Russian biologist Ilya Erich Mecinikov concluded that Bulgarians' longevity is due to their long-term habit of eating yogurt. Mechnikov pointed out that lactic acid bacteria is an important element of human health, so he began to promote yogurt as a food throughout Europe. Later, Spanish entrepreneur Isaac carazo industrialized the production of yogurt. 19 19, carazo promoted his yogurt products in Barcelona, and named the products after his son Dannon, which is more well known in the United States. There is a saying that yogurt with jam pulp can play its protective role against virus invasion. This kind of yogurt with jam pulp was finally patented by a dairy company in Prague at 1933, and was introduced to the United States by Danone at 1947.