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    22 hours ago

    The heat treatment kills the bacteria, so the yogurt you buy in supermarkets most likely has no probiotic value, unless specifically labeled.

    This is the response I got from Google:

    Modern production methods have not made yogurt “dead” in the sense of disappearing, but many supermarket options are “dead” in terms of beneficial, live probiotic cultures due to intense heat treatment, additives, and long-shelf-life requirements.

    It may vary between countries and labels, but AFAIK the yogurt we have here is worthless as a probiotic.
    It doesn’t help that yogurt naturally contain healthy probiotics if they are killed before shipping.