I saw an episode of Alton Brown's "Good Eats" on the Food Network which was about yogurt, in which he asserted that even the lactose intolerant could eat and digest it, in spite of the fact that it is pretty much the dairy-est thing since milk itself, as long as it contained active cultures. Being lactose intolerant, I decided to put this to the test.
At the store today I looked through the yogurt section of the dairy case. Some brands of yogurt bear the inscription "made with active cultures" or "with active cultures"; apparently this is a way that they LIE to the consumer by hiding behind semantics. These yogurts would make me incredibly sick because they contained active cultures only in the PAST. The active cultures have to be alive at the time I consume them, so that they can digest the lactose for me, so the plastic cup has to specifically say "contains active cultures".
I am eating a fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt as I write this, not having eaten any yogurt in a couple of years, at least. It's delicious. In about a half hour we'll see if Alton Brown was right, and I can eat this stuff. I hope so.
