How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g

TIA


--
"Experience is something you don't get until
just after you need it." Steven Wright

KenK wrote:

How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture?

You can always add more milk to it, set it in a warm place, and see if
it keeps fermenting.

But seriously, if you just need a few doses of known active
yogurt, buy something like "Dannon Activa" that is advertised
as being active.


Steve

On Jul 12, 10:32*am, KenK wrote:
How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g

TIA

--
"Experience is something you don't get until
just after you need it." Steven Wright

If it has active cultures in it, it will say so on the package. you
might want to also consider drinking Kefir.

On Jul 12, 10:32*am, KenK wrote:
How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g

TIA

--
"Experience is something you don't get until
just after you need it." Steven Wright

I was under the impression that all yogurt had it!

On 12 Jul 2012 17:32:52 GMT, KenK wrote:

How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g

TIA
It says "Live" on the carton. All the name brands indicate on the
label where the ingredients are listed. It may say "Active."
Janet US

On 7/12/2012 7:32 AM, KenK wrote:
How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g

TIA



I think that all the yogurt you're likely to get is active culture so
don't worry about it.

KenK wrote:

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package?

Yes, it will say on the package.
I've got Yoplait and it says live and active
I've got a Dannon and it says active cultures (but doesn't say live)

G.

On 7/12/2012 11:36 AM, Steve Pope wrote:
KenK wrote:

How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture?

You can always add more milk to it, set it in a warm place, and see if
it keeps fermenting.

But seriously, if you just need a few doses of known active
yogurt, buy something like "Dannon Activa" that is advertised
as being active.


Don't bother with Activia. It's overpriced and oversweetened. Read the
containers of the yogurts in the store. Those that contain live cultures
will say so on the container somewhere. Otherwise, you could take
Culturelle or some other form of yogurt culture in pill form.

dsi1 wrote:
KenK wrote:

How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture?

I think that all the yogurt you're likely to get is active culture so
don't worry about it.

It's easy to tell. Put a spoon of the yogurt in a glass of milk and put
it in a warm dark location over night. If it was active you have a live
yogurt from then on. If it was dead you wasted a glass of milk. I've
done this and it works great.

On 12 Jul 2012 17:32:52 GMT, KenK wrote:

How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g

You need live yogurt to make yogurt at home, so back in the days when
I did that sort of thing the two rules were no sugar and no gelatin or
other stabilizer. It's much easier to find these days. The Greek
yogurt I have is perfect. It says "Contains Active Yogurt Cultures"
right on the package.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:23:25 -0700, sf wrote:

On 12 Jul 2012 17:32:52 GMT, KenK wrote:

How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g

You need live yogurt to make yogurt at home, so back in the days when
I did that sort of thing the two rules were no sugar and no gelatin or
other stabilizer. It's much easier to find these days. The Greek
yogurt I have is perfect. It says "Contains Active Yogurt Cultures"
right on the package.

That is one way of starting yogurt. I buy dried starter, I believe
the name is Yogumet. One envelope in a quart of milk. Yes it is
cheaper to use some of the previous purchase, but if you only make
yogurt every 2 or 3 months it doesn't pay.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

On 7/12/2012 12:12 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
dsi1 wrote:
KenK wrote:

How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture?

I think that all the yogurt you're likely to get is active culture so
don't worry about it.

It's easy to tell. Put a spoon of the yogurt in a glass of milk and put
it in a warm dark location over night. If it was active you have a live
yogurt from then on. If it was dead you wasted a glass of milk. I've
done this and it works great.


I didn't know that there were any dead yoghurts out there. I used to
make yogurt decades ago. I would just warm up milk to a not too hot and
not too cold temperature and mix in some yoghurt. Then I would pour the
mix into a glass thermos and forget about it for 12 to 18 hours. The
stuff I got was more like buttermilk. I used to make waffles with that.
You could also strain the yoghurt and make something like cream cheese.
I've made some cheese cakes and pies with the stuff but it's a lot
easier to just buy cream cheese.

On 7/12/2012 1:46 PM, merryb wrote:

On Jul 12, 10:32 am, wrote:
How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit.g


I was under the impression that all yogurt had it!

I learned something interesting about live cultures in yogurt since I've
been making frozen yogurt from plain yogurt, and that's that live yogurt
cultures go dormant when frozen and come back to life when you eat the
yogurt. Neat!

On Jul 12, 1:32*pm, KenK wrote:


How can you tell if yogurt has a live culture? I was told to eat some
yogurt and some probiotic pills to help with diarrhea after antibiotics by
the pharmasist. He also steered me to some OTC anti-diarrhea meds.

How can you tell if the yogurt is live culture? Will it say so on the
package? None did at the grocery so i tried one at random. Tasted good but
I suspect it was dead. Didn't squirm around a bit. g



I've made yogurt a few times. Sometimes it doesn't come out.
It's been years since I've tried. My grandparents always had it in a
huge bowl in the fridge. It is a staple in the Mediterranean. The
making process is interesting in that it could almost be said that
when you eat yogurt today you're eating a piece of history because
you're using passed down live cultures. My grandparents never bought
yogurt that I know of. When they were 3/4 of the way through the big
bowl, they'd take out a tablespoon of it and put it in a quart or two
of milk that has been warmed to just the right temperature (my
grandfather used his little finger immersed in the milk, counting to
ten and feeling the need to pull out at just that number). It is not
be be over-stirred. That's all there was to it. They'd then put the
yogurt in a dark corner of the counter with a towel over the lid for
some reason, and voila, five hours later or so, a whole new bowl of
yogurt. Some of my older relatives who are still alive told me that
in recent years they had more failures than usual when making yogurt,
and they've been doing it all their lives. Different suspicions
abound regarding the milk and hormones, etc. Or maybe they just got
old and lazy and figure what the hell, the store bought stuff is good
enough. But believe me, the home made is way different, very fluffy
and light and better all around in a hard to describe way.

TJ