From whale milk cheese to boiled penguin eggs , we at IFLScience love a freaky foodie story. This latest one, however, might just take the cake . Reviving a traditional Balkan recipe, intrepid scientists have made – and taste-tested – yogurt produced using a very unexpected secret ingredient: ants. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

This is not about finding new and bizarre ways to add protein to food. The ants are actually central to the production of the yogurt, providing lots of the necessary elements in one handy arthropod package.

Yogurt is made by fermenting milk, a process that dates back to as early as 7,000 years ago when there is some archaeological evidence of our ancestors making cheese. Fermentati

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