Yogurt
Meaning
A semi-solid food prepared from milk fermented by added bacteria, often sweetened and flavoured.
Pronunciation
UK ˈjɒɡət
US ˈjoʊɡərt
Example Sentences
- Yogurt also spelled yoghurt, yogourt or yoghourt, is a worldwide popular food.
- The fermentation of lactose by these bacteria produces lactic acid, which acts on milk protein to give yogurt its texture and characteristic tart flavor.
- The bacteria used to make yogurt are known as yogurt cultures.
- These are the "good bacteria" responsible for all of yogurt's health benefits.
- Yogurt is highly nutritious and is an excellent source of protein, calcium and potassium.
- The most recent etymology of the word yogurt certainly comes from the Turkish language (meaning to knead or mix with a utensil).
- Nobody knows when yogurt was discovered, its origins have been lost in the mists of time.
- Legend tells that yogurt was discovered because a shepherd, forgetting some milk in one of these skins for a while, when he finally remembered it, found it transformed : into something denser and tastier.
- Apart from the legend, the most likely inventor of yogurt was yogurt itself.
- As far as Yogurt is concerned, it is easy to isolate the main cause of fermentation in the organisms present in the animal skins used as containers.
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