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Yogurt is bulk animal fat, cultured with a tiny bit of bacteria. It’s not bulk bacteria.

kragen 2y ago
your comment is incorrect from beginning to end - yogurt is not animal fat; it's milk, with or without the fat, but the crucial part for yogurtmaking is the lactose and protein, because that's what the bacteria eat - 'animal fat' is ambiguous but usually refers to adipose tissue cut from the body of an animal, which yogurt essentially never contains - while initially you inoculate the yogurt with a tiny quantity of bacteria, they multiply exponentially, doubling about 20 times, or a factor of a million. most of the bacteria die before yogurtmaking is complete, but the majority of the non-liquid mass of the yogurt at the end consists of living or dead bacteria
- throwup238 2y ago
  It's still not bulk bacteria.
  - kragen 2y ago
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    - throwup238 2y ago
      This is bulk bacteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_%28dietary_supplement%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_%28dietary_supplemen... Do you see the difference? It's not mixed with anything. It's not culturing anything. It's just bacteria biomass. In bulk. Nothing else. You can bloviate all you want, but that's what bulk bacteria means. How hard is that to grasp? (No need to respond because I give up)
      - kragen 2y ago
        the tablets in the first photo do in fact have other things mixed with the bacteria, as you would be aware if you had ever made tablets. yogurt looks pretty much the same under a microscope except that the morphology of streptococcus is more rounded than the brick-like spirulina cells
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  - sfmz 2y ago
    One typical sized yoghurt of 150 gram therefore contains about 30mg of bacteria. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/27713/how-much-of-the-weight-of-yoghurt-is-due-to-bacteria#:~:text=Mutiplying%20both%20numbers%20gives%20the,contains%20about%2030mg%20of%20bacteria https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/27713/how-much-o....
    - kragen 2y ago
      30mg of live bacteria, as that page clearly explains. but the vast majority of the rest is either water or dead bacteria, as i clearly explained above

your comment is incorrect from beginning to end - yogurt is not animal fat; it's milk, with or without the fat, but the crucial part for yogurtmaking is the lactose and protein, because that's what the bacteria eat - 'animal fat' is ambiguous but usually refers to adipose tissue cut from the body of an animal, which yogurt essentially never contains - while initially you inoculate the yogurt with a tiny quantity of bacteria, they multiply exponentially, doubling about 20 times, or a factor of a million. most of the bacteria die before yogurtmaking is complete, but the majority of the non-liquid mass of the yogurt at the end consists of living or dead bacteria

throwup238 2y ago
It's still not bulk bacteria.
- kragen 2y ago
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  - throwup238 2y ago
    This is bulk bacteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_%28dietary_supplement%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_%28dietary_supplemen... Do you see the difference? It's not mixed with anything. It's not culturing anything. It's just bacteria biomass. In bulk. Nothing else. You can bloviate all you want, but that's what bulk bacteria means. How hard is that to grasp? (No need to respond because I give up)
    - kragen 2y ago
      the tablets in the first photo do in fact have other things mixed with the bacteria, as you would be aware if you had ever made tablets. yogurt looks pretty much the same under a microscope except that the morphology of streptococcus is more rounded than the brick-like spirulina cells
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- sfmz 2y ago
  One typical sized yoghurt of 150 gram therefore contains about 30mg of bacteria. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/27713/how-much-of-the-weight-of-yoghurt-is-due-to-bacteria#:~:text=Mutiplying%20both%20numbers%20gives%20the,contains%20about%2030mg%20of%20bacteria https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/27713/how-much-o....
  - kragen 2y ago
    30mg of live bacteria, as that page clearly explains. but the vast majority of the rest is either water or dead bacteria, as i clearly explained above