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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 87 points 2 years ago

Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt.

Today, most yogurts are produced by fermenting milk using commercially made starters. However, the industrialisation of the process has meant that countless traditional fermentation practices from around the world are overlooked.

The rest is paywalled.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago
[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I'm sure my imagination is worse than reality, but I'm afraid to read the article and find out.

I assume it's either ant vomit, feces, or something that's fermented... Possibly all three.

[-] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s not that bad. A traditional yogurt-making practice is to put a couple ants into some milk. The microorganisms and enzymes that the ants introduce helps kick off the fermentation of the milk, turning it into yogurt.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago
[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years ago

I think I might be the only one in this thread that doesn't totally hate this idea. Lol. But I also don't really have a problem with the idea of eating ants in general. They taste of vinegar, and are overall a bit tasty.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's no worse than how hotdogs are made. Fewer assholes, anyway.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

I dunno, ants can be real bastards

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do citronella ants have a different note?

[-] Daze@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

So do they like… float? in the milk? 🤢

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Shelve it with that animal shit coffee

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

Are we putting it on the castoreum shelf or the one with the big lump of ambergris?

[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 years ago
[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 2 years ago
[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 19 points 2 years ago
[-] Nathanator@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago
[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago
[-] herorobb@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago
[-] shaman1093@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] SeekPie@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago
[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago
[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago
[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Long time operating. Not often recognized.

Has many sub-sets. For example, LeafCutter-AntOS incorporates fungi to cultivate garnered plant matter into fuel for their whole system.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago
[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Will there be fruit on the bottom? Or did the ants eat all the fruit?

[-] Blum0108@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

The ants are the fruit. They're nature's raisins!

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Would alien ants work? I know there used to be farms

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago
[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Spoons for yogurt!

Forks? Turn em into a Mohawk

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Fortunately, Ender and Bean handled that for us.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 years ago

i'm hungry now. where ant yogurt

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm a little upset no one told me ants were making the yogart this whole time.

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

They say knowing about the food you're going to eat makes it more delicious... is yogurt more delicious for you after knowing this information?

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

The world is full of magic

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Do they have to be Greek ants?

[-] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago
[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Aunt is Thea in Greek

Theía (Θεία) is “aunt”

Theá (Θεά) is “goddess”

So obviously yoghurt comes from goddesses.

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that’s gonna be a ‘no’ from me, dog.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

"Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk"

Sweetened by screams of four drowning ants

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, the ants are an ingredient. I was hoping to learn they had somehow trained ants to manufacture yogurt.

this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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