Fact Check: Yogurt comes from space

It is also considered a very good medium for delivering functional ingredients such as probiotics, prebiotics, and others. Yogurt originated perhaps 10,000–15,000 years ago, probably in the Middle East from adventitious contamination by lactic acid bacteria in milk.

Although it is not clear when these traditions arose, it is noteworthy that the earliest evidence of yogurt and architectural depictions of ants and bees were found in prehistoric remains from our study region.90,91 While these fragmentary anecdotes do not reconcile or resolve the origins of fermentative microbes, they highlight cultural threads that may connect ants and ferments.

Although it is not clear when these traditions arose, it is noteworthy that the earliest evidence of yogurt and architectural depictions of ants and bees were found in prehistoric remains from our study region.90,91 While these fragmentary anecdotes do not reconcile or resolve the origins of fermentative microbes, they highlight cultural threads that may connect ants and ferments.

The nomads carried their milk in ... discovered in this way in different places at different times, and probably originated in the Middle East and Central Asia....

Once people started using animals for milk in the Neolithic, the use of fermented dairy products was not far behind. Thomas notes that, "if you milked a cow in the morning ... in the Near East by lunchtime it would have started to ferment into yogurt."

Home-brewed yoghurt on International Space Station may be just a small leap for a group of budding scientists

Yogurt is a staple food in several cultures, originating from countries in Western Asia and the Middle East. The word yogurt is believed to be derived from

The word for yogurt is derived from the Ottoman Turkish: یوغورت, romanized: yoğurt, and is usually related to the verb yoğurmak, "to knead", or "to be curdled or coagulated; to thicken". The origin of the word is yuġrut, found in Uyghur texts from before the year 1000 in Old Turkic, ...

The company claims that the strong, surviving bacteria gives the space yogurt a more full-bodied flavor than commonplace yogurts made with earthbound bacteria. In Japanese, the yogurt is called Uchu O Tabi Shita Yogurt (literally: “yogurt that traveled in space”).