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In reply to the discussion: Canada Dry sued over lack of ginger in ginger ale [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)There are a lot of things that I eat that I will never make myself. Yogurt is one of them. Maybe if I had a wife of child that had special dietary needs and commercial stuff was inadequate, but since I don't have a wife or child.
Hey, I looked up a little science on yogurt. The key part is that the culture acts on proteins, so any plant that has the right kind of proteins can form a yogurt. Milk yogurt has been made longer because humans have domesticated animals and extracted their milk for many centuries and used animal stomachs to store the milk, the stomachs caused curd in some cases. It is reasonable to assume that if early man knew how to extract certain types of plant liquids and exposed them to curding bacteria, plant yogurt would be centuries old.
I would not get bent over plant yogurts. There are a lot of people who simply can not eat cow milk based products of any type, plant yogurts and plant milks were first crafted for those people. I would guess that parents that have children that have to eat plant yogurt may eat the stuff themselves to prevent the child from feeling left out.