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Moment of Um

How did people figure out how to make yogurt?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

There are all different kinds of yogurt: Greek, vanilla bean, blueberry, even sheep’s milk yogurt! But how did people first figure out how to make this yummy food? We asked journalist Allison Conroe to help us find the answer.


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From the brains behind Brains on, this is the moment of um.

0:40.2

Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, um, um, comes to you from EPM Studios. I'm Shayla Farsan.

1:03.7

Um.

1:06.3

I love yogurt. It's one of my favorite foods. In the morning, I'll put a nice big dollop of Greek

1:13.3

yogurt in a bowl, sprinkle a handful of granola over it, and toss some fruit on top. Sometimes

1:19.1

if I'm feeling extra fancy, I'll drizzle a little maple syrup or agave over it. There's tons of

1:25.1

other foods I like to eat yogurt with, too. My family is Middle Eastern,

1:29.3

so we eat yogurt as a side dish with our dinner sometimes. We'll eat it with stews, rice,

1:35.0

even use it for dipping toasted bread. But one thing I've always wondered, how did people

1:40.6

first learn to make yogurt anyway? One of our listeners had a question about this, too.

1:46.0

Let's ask someone who knows all about yogurt.

2:08.1

Hi, my name is Ali Conroe, and I am a food and culture writer and journalist.

2:21.4

So fermentation, as it's widely known or used today, is the transformation of food by bacteria, fungi, and yeast. So essentially, imagine little Pac-Men, and they're eating different molecules, different substances in food, and they're

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