24 hour yogurt calcium content
How much calcium in 24 hour yogurt? I use a half gallon of Organic whole milk & starter. I have heard yogurt has more calcium than milk after fermentation, but can find no measurements (or %DV)for calcium on homemade 24 hour yogurt.
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Calcium is an element, so the biological-chemical processes of fermentation can neither create nor destroy it (and it does not become a gas which could float away). Therefore, the calcium content of your end product will be exactly the calcium content of your ingredients, so you if you know how much calcium is in your milk and starter then you have your answer.
Note that:
- This is true of the absolute quantity of calcium, not the proportional quantity (to take an exaggerated example, if 1 litre of ingredients produced 0.75 litres of yoghurt then even if the quantity of calcium was the same the proportion would be much higher).
- It may be that the calcium after fermentation is in a different form which the body is more or less able to use (this is called bioavailability); you would need to research that question separately (my instinct, though, is that this is not the case).
- As rumtscho's comment points out, if your recipe involves discarding whey or some other part of the mixture then this reasoning no longer applies, and you would have to investigate whether the whey/discard contains proportionately more or less calcium than the remainder of the ingredients. However, the recipes I have seen for 24-hour yoghurt don't involve discarding whey or any other part of the mixture.
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Is 24-hour yogurt better for you?
Additionally, 24-hour yogurt has more Probiotics because of the extended fermentation. In a cup of 24-hour yogurt there are 708 billion beneficial bacteria, 50 times as much Probiotics as one gets from pill form. This yogurt is cooked for 24 hours in order to reduce/remove the lactose.Can you incubate yogurt too long?
Incubated at 115\xb0F/46\xb0C, yogurt will coagulate within about three hours, but if left too long it can easily curdle. I prefer to ferment it a bit more slowly at a slightly lower temperature, four to eight hours at a more forgiving 110\xb0F/43\xb0C.How long can you leave yogurt to ferment?
24 hours is an ideal fermentation time which produces a yogurt with minimal sugar. Homemade 'specific carbohydrate diet' yogurt may be fermented for even up to 30 hours, however beyond that, you risk starving the bacteria and spoiling the yogurt.HOW TO MAKE SCD 24 HOUR YOGURT (lactose free yogurt for Crohn's, Colitis, Celiac, digestive health)
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