Yogurt Project

Yogurt, which is made by fermenting milk, is one of the oldest foods in the human diet. Yogurt has its origins in Turkey. The word itself comes from the old Turkish root, yog, meaning 'condense' or 'intensify', and is first seen in English when a travel writer, Samuel Purchas, notes in 1625 how the Turks did not consume milk unless it was sour, which they called 'yoghurd'. Whatever it has been called though, yogurt was incorporated into the human diet, long before then..