When and where was yogurt invented?

By Turkish people around the 15th century.

The word is derived from turkish-yoğurt, and is related to yoğurmak 'to knead' and yoğun "dense" or "thick" - This is not my own words :)

Yogurt, like cheese, was discovered long ago, when wandering herdsmen carrying mik in sheepskin bags noticed that the milk had curdled. People likely discovered both cheese and yogurt in the beginning of the Neolithic era, when they first began to practice milking. Nomadic herdsmen milked their animlas, then carried the milk in pouches made out of sheep's stomachs, the lining of which contains an enzyme called rennin, which curdles milk. The Middle Eastern climate was ideal fo curdling milk: left in the heat, milk curdled in just a few hours. Depending on the degree of heat and the type of bacteria in the environment, the curds would be find and develop into yogurt, or coarse and develop into cheese. Yogurt was most likely discovered by accident. As a product of milk, it was assigned similar properties. Milk and milk products have always been considered nothing short of magical. In fact, it has been suggested that the milk in the biblical phrase milk and honey' referred to yogurt. As soon as the wandering herdsmen discovered the curdled milk, they tasted it and found it to their liking. It was not long before they perceived health benefits that they attributed to the curdled milk...Peasants in the Balkans live a long time, particuarly in Bulgaria, and furthermore, many of them retain their ability to conceived late in life. Both of these abilities have been attributed to the fact that these people eat large quantities of yogurt, and that yogurt apparently has healing properties."

As you can see on the listed website, there is MANY theories. But the most reliable dates back to turkey/middle east.

Either way. I'm sure as hell glad it was invented. Where would I be without it? -> In a gutter crying probably :)

Who Invented Yogurt

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You don't NEED a starter culture. As long as the atmospheric conditions are right yoghurt will form. All it was was milk left out for several hours, it just turned to yoghurt. Same thing happens in my kitchen all the time if I get distracted from what I am doing. I'm sure if you look up the history of yoghurt there will be some romantic story about milk being stored in sheeps bladders hung from the saddles on camels as they trekked across the Sahara. Reality is these people would have taken the cows with them and milked them as they needed milk en route.

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When and where was yogurt invented?

I don't know if yogurt was truly invented. I think it just happened.

Raw milk contains natural bacteria. The bacteria soured milk and caused proteins to clump together.

Someone figured out that stuff was edible.

The exact origin of yogurt is uncertain, but legend has it that the Biblical patriarch Abraham offered yogurt to the angels when they told him of the birth of his son Isaac. Over the years, yogurt has been credited as the reason for the longevity of Abraham, who lived to the advanced age of 175, and some Biblical scholars believe that yogurt is the milk of the phrase "milk and honey."

Indu's answer is fantastic, and I can't top it nor do I want to try. But I used to buy raw, unpasteurized milk from a farmer in the Midwest when I was a student, and there were times when a small bit of milk left out on a warm night overnight had turned to yogurt by morning. That hadn't been my intent. It was just the milk for coffee left out after a dinner party. But that does underscore that, in the absence of refrigeration and of pasteurization, the process by which milk becomes yogurt is a natural phenomenon. The homogenized, pasteurized milk we buy at the supermarket now simply rots when it goes bad, though admittedly it is unilaterally safer for us to consume.

Years ago (1982) I became acquaintances with a retired army colonel from Oman who taught me to make what he called "Arab yogurt" -- which it now turns out is called Greek yogurt and is very popular. Call it "Middle-eastern yogurt." It is quite thick, sometimes thick as cream cheese, and the arabs (Emile told me) used to carry jars of it across the desert on camelback. They would put the yogurt in the crockery jars, then float extra virgin olive oil on top to seal the yogurt from contamination from the air. And when it was time for lunch, they would stop, smear a little of that olive oil-laced, thick yogurt on a pita, top with a little crushed chili peppers, and eat that with some dates or apricots.

Emile & his wife Virginia moved away, and not long after, I became pregnant. I made that yogurt all through my pregnancy, ate it smeared on bread at breakfast and used it in curries when I cooked. My daughter was a perfect 10 (Apgar) at birth, and I have always associated that ancient, delicious food, the recipe for which came to me from near the cradle of human civilization, with her robust and blooming health.

bye the turks in the 15th century

IDK!