A NEW HEALTH DRINK

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 June 1914, Page 7

A NEW HEALTH DRINK

A new health drink, known as fermented milk is being prepared and sold by the dairy department of the College of Agriculture, Ohio State University. A bacteria, called bacillus bulgaricus, is the active principle in this milk, which acts as an intestinal disinfectant and helps to keep the bodj healthy. Other bacteria cannot live in the presence of this germ, which was discovered and named by Dr. Metclmikoff, the famous scientist.

In preparing fermented milk one part of the culture ; of "bacillus bulgaricus and one part of the ordinary lactic acid culture are added to two parts of sterilized skimmilk. Enough Pasteurised sweet cream to make the mixture contain two per cent, butterfat is then put in and the whole churned for about nv c minutes to mix thoroughly. Tt is then put up in. fancy bottles an-d placed on the market. This milk does not whey off an<3 the longer it stands at the propef temperature the better it gets.