Main Ingredient For Yogurt – Fernleaf Family Milk

1279 days ago

Well, went to NTUC and bought myself some more ingredients for making yogurt. I purchased the Fernleaf Family Milk powder. This is the dried milk powder which I will be using...

Well, went to NTUC and bought myself some more ingredients for making yogurt. I purchased the Fernleaf Family Milk powder. This is the dried milk powder which I will be using as my base. For the yogurt cultures, I would probably be using a little yogurt from my next batch or go buy a plain yogurt (with live cultures) from the supermarket. The way I plan to do is to mix up about 200g of powdered milk and top up to 1 litre with water. After the milk powder is completely dissolved, I will then add about 1 to 2 tablespoons of yogurt to the mixture and let them do their work in covering milk to yogurt.

So I went to NTUC and searched for the cheapest milk powder I can find. And it is this Fernleaf Family Milk Powder.

For S$6.75, you get about 635g of Milk Powder from Fernleaf. This is the proof of purchase, or in some other countries, they call it Receipt. Thanks to cashier Helen Sutiono for enduring my sour look.

Okay, here is the Fernleaf Family Milk powder. This is specially formulated for Singapore. I guess they mean they are making it with less actual milk powder and more crap since that is exactly what Singapore is.

Wow, so many vitamins, nutrients and minerals! That little girl will surely be happy drinking the milk.

It provides proteins, calcium, iron, vitamin B12, Magnesium, Vitamin A, Vitamin B2, Vitamin C, Vitamin D3 and Iodine to the entire family! It is indeed very healthy to drink milk but we are going to make use of this powdered milk to make something even more nutrious – yogurt. From of the guides and tutorials on how to make yogurt, most recipes call for milk, either fresh and bottled milk but very few use powdered milk except in part. The base of the yogurt is still the fresh or bottle milk. Adding the powdered milk is merely to ensure that the yogurt will turn out firm. For what I am doing, I am using this powdered milk (with water of course) as the base. Not too sure how it will trun out but I guess it should be the same as the Easiyo Yogurt base since they are based on powdered milk as well.

Hmmm….there is Maltodextrin and whey powder in this powdered milk. I wonder how will this two ingredients affect my final product. Maltodextrin is some sort of a sweetener while the whey powder is actually dried whey (also healthy stuff by the way). And what is calcium carbonate? A preservative? Well, I guess only time will tell whether using the Fernleaf product will work or not. I am keeping my fingers cross and hoping for the best. I would hate to have to drink 635g of milk by myself. And then I will have to go and search for a powdered milk which has no other additives other than whole milk powder.