Why is there gelatin in store yogurt?

[Mountaineer]

Will home made yogurt taste weird after eating this weird storebought yogurt claiming to be yougurt? (I like it!) Thanks.

[homebirtha]

I like store-bought yogurt ok, but I LOVE homemade! The gelatin makes it thicker, homemade will not be as thick. I add a little powdered milk to mine to make it a little creamier and thicker, but it tastes great without it.

[Laura Workman]

You can also add gelatin to homemade yogurt. (I don't like powdered milk!)

[Mountaineer]

Thanks. I think I'll like the homemade just fine if it's just a thickener. And with the store price lately, it won't be missed either.

[Freeholder]

I found that the Kinder goat milk makes thicker yogurt without having to add the powdered milk -- still not as thick as store-bought, but I think it tastes better with just the goat milk and not having to add the powdered milk. I'll have enough milk soon to start making yogurt and cheese again -- yahoo!

Kathleen

[Al. Countryboy]

We have not made yogurt in a couple of years, but we would mix a few tablespoons of our favorite jello into our yogurt when is was about finished. This will give it the terxture of the store bought yogurt. Peach jello is my favorite. We have also used these flavored yogurts to make yogurt icecream. We have one of those icecream makers that you put the tub in the freezer and then bring it out, add your ingredents and turn it on. I think that it makes about a quart and a half. The icecream maker comes with recipes that we changed around to use our goats milk. If you use the recipes in the book and want to add jello to give a certain flavor you want to be sure to add your jello to warm milk because the sugar does not seem to dissolve very well when the milk is cold.

[Oldntimes]

Would you all be wiling to post your yogurt receipe's ??? Please!!! We eat tons of yogurt here and can not wait till we can make some here in a couple weeks. I have no clue..but really want to make some.
Ingredients and instuctions would be great. Also if any one adds friut, how and when?
We do not like plain, so I would like to add fruit.
Thanks a bunch

Colleen

[shaneymc]

my wife mad goatgurt for us off and on last season. it was definitely thinner than store bought, but when we dried up the does for the season and I went back to store bought, YUCK!! I could really taste the gelatin. Even in the all natural plain stuff. Same idea as getting off any other additives i suppose. When my father in law had to quit salt for heart trouble, it was a brutal few months (we all decided to cut back) but now i really notice how salty most prepared food is.

Anyway, i pour the thinner goatgurt over frozen blueberries and love it.

[ozark_jewels]

There are some yogurt brands sold that don't contain gelatin....those are the ones I buy, can't recall the name at the moment. I don't like the feel of the gelatin stuff.

[shepherdess1]

Could some one post a recipe for yogurt useing flavored jello to make it thicker? That'd be great!

[SherrieT]

I think I read somewhere that they put gelatin in yogurt because of the all bouncing around in shipment. If you did that to homemade yogurt, it would be liquid by the time it got to the store. Homemade is just sooo much yummier