What is the difference between Plain yogurt and sour cream?

Question

I am allergic to sour cream (get stomach upset) but, I can eat yogurt.

Answer 1

To make sour cream one starts with "cream". That is the fat from whole milk from which we get butter. Adding a culture from buttermilk is the best way to make it at home.

To make yogurt you can start with any milk, even non-fat resconstituted powdered milk. You simply add yogurt from an active batch to your milk.

That means that sour cream is mostly fat. But it is also made using different bacterias than yougurt.

The live bacterias that make these are very different and in fact ,can vary from manufacturers. Not all yogurts use the same cultures and neither do all sour creams. Not all of either use live bacteria. Sometimes there are thickeners, stabilizers (they keep it from separating which a natural thing that happens), flavorings, and preservatives. If you are having troubles check the labels. It may not be sour cream that troubles you, but what's in it that you are responding to.

You should also be aware that most adults are lactose intolerant to some degree or another. Afterall, cows' milk is for baby cows. Humans have learned how to alter it to make it usable and not every culture has bothered to do even that. So that means that depending on your geneaology you may not be able to digest milk products very well.

If that is true for you, you should be very cautious about consuming dairy. There are food additives that promise to allow you to eat it but that does not mean that you should or that it is beneficial for you.

Answer 2

Greek Yogurt Vs Sour Cream

Answer 3

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What is the difference between Plain yogurt and sour cream?
I am allergic to sour cream (get stomach upset) but, I can eat yogurt.

Answer 4

Sour cream is made with heavy cream, and yogurt is typically made with milk.
Here's a recipe for homemade sour cream (half way down the page):
http://www.kurma.net/ingredients/i4.html

Here are a couple of recipes for yogurt:
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/giftinajar/homemade-yogurt.shtml

Answer 5

Yogurt has live bacteria (good kind) and sour cream does not.