Dairy product

Dairy products are generally defined as foodstuffs produced from milk. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy. Raw milk for processing generally comes from cows, but occasionally from other mammals such as goats, sheep, water buffalo, yaks, or horses.

Related Topics:
Food - Milk - Dairy - Cow - Mammal - Goat - Sheep - Water buffalo - Yak - Horse

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There are more than 30 main products made from milk with a number of sub-products in each category. Dairy products include:

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• Milk, after optional homogenization, pasteurization, in several grades after standardization of the fat level
• Cream, the fat skimmed off the top of milk or separated by machine-centrifuges
• Sour cream, cream that has been fermented by the bacteria Streptococcus lactis and Leuconostoc citrovorum
• Crème fraîche, slightly fermented cream
• Cultured buttermilk, fermented concentrated (water removed) milk using the same bacteria as sour cream
• Milk powder (or powdered milk), produced by removing the water from milk
• Whole milk & buttermilk
• Skim milk
• Cream
• High milk-fat & nutritional powders (for infant formulas)
• Cultured and confectionary powders
• Condensed milk, milk which has been concentrated by evaporation, often with sugar added for longer life in an opened can
• Evaporated milk, (less concentrated than condensed) milk without added sugar
• Khoa
• Infant formula, dried milk powder with specific additives for feeding human infants
• Butter, mostly milk fat, produced by churning cream
• Buttermilk, the liquid left over after producing butter from cream, often dried as stock food
• Butter cream?
• Ghee, clarified butter, by gentle heating of butter and removal of the solid matter
• Anhydrous milkfat
• Cheese, produced by coagulating milk, separating from whey and letting it ripen, generally with bacteria and sometimes also with certain molds
• Curds, the soft curdled part of milk (or skim milk) used to make cheese (or casein)
• Whey, the liquid drained from curds and used for further processing or as a stock food
• Cottage cheese
• Cream cheese, produced by the addition of cream to milk and then curdled to form a rich curd or cheese made from skim milk with cream added to the curd
• Fromage frais
• Casein
• Caseinates
• Milk protein concentrates and isonates
• Whey protein concentrates and isonates
• Hydrolysates
• Mineral concentrates
• Yogurt, milk fermented by Streptococcus thermophiles and either Lactobacillus acidophilus or Lactobacillus bulgaricus
• Ayran
• Lassi
• Gelato, slowly frozen milk and water
• Ice cream, slowly frozen cream and emulsifying additives
• Ice milk
• Frozen custard
• Frozen yogurt, yogurt with emulsifiers that is frozen
• Other
• Kumiss/Airag
• Viili
• Kephir
• Filmjölk
• Piimä

Got Milk? is an international organization supporting dairy products, especially milk.

Related Topics:
Got Milk? - Milk

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