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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450495-ants-can-be-used-to-make-yogurt-and-now-we-know-how-it-works/

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  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      deleted by creator

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    TIHI

    • 200ok@lemmy.world
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      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
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        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
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          TIHI

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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          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.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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            It’s no worse than how hotdogs are made. Fewer assholes, anyway.

            • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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              I dunno, ants can be real bastards

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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            Do citronella ants have a different note?

        • Daze@sh.itjust.works
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          So do they like… float? in the milk? 🤢

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      Shelve it with that animal shit coffee

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

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    Thanks, ants.

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      Thants.

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      Thants

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      Thants

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      Thants.

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      Thants.

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      Thants.

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      Thants

    • shaman1093@lemmy.ml
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      Thants.

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      Thants.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      Thanos

      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
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        Surely not TheAntOS!

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          Another distro?!?!

          • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
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            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.

      • TryingSomethingNew@lemmy.world
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        Thanatos

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        Oh snap

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

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

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

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      Smooth.

      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
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        Spoons for yogurt!

        Forks? Turn em into a Mohawk

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      Fortunately, Ender and Bean handled that for us.

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    i’m hungry now. where ant yogurt

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

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      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?

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        The world is full of magic

  • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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    Do they have to be Greek ants?

    • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works
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      Aunt is Thea in Greek

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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        Aunt is Thea in Greek

        Theía (Θεία) is “aunt”

        Theá (Θεά) is “goddess”

        So obviously yoghurt comes from goddesses.

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    Neat.

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    Yogurt model of Ant OS

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

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

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    I like that apparently we did this before we knew how it worked.

    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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      we did most kinds of fermentations before we knew how they worked

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

    Sweetened by screams of four drowning ants

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

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