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.
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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.
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.
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Will there be fruit on the bottom? Or did the ants eat all the fruit?
The ants are the fruit. They’re nature’s raisins!
Would alien ants work? I know there used to be farms
Fortunately, Ender and Bean handled that for us.
“Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk”
Sweetened by screams of four drowning ants
