Brown Cow is an American

United States

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 brand of yogurt produced in Antioch

Antioch, California

Antioch is a city in Contra Costa County, California. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, it is a suburb of San Francisco and Oakland. The city's population was 102,372 at the U.S...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. The company offers a range of "cream top" yogurt—when the milk used to make yogurt has not been homogenized, a layer of cream rises to the top, forming a rich yogurt cream with a taste and texture not unlike sour cream

Sour cream

Sour cream is a dairy product rich in fats obtained by fermenting a regular cream by certain kinds of lactic acid bacteria. The bacterial culture, which is introduced either deliberately or naturally, sours and thickens the cream. Its name stems from the production of lactic acid by bacterial...

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Brown Cow yogurt contains all-natural ingredients, with no artificial ingredients or preservatives, and uses only milk from cows who were not fed artificial growth hormones.

History

Brown Cow was founded in 1975, on a small family farm in Ithaca, NY. "Lily" was the name of the original brown cow from whom the company took its name.

In 1989, Brown Cow moved to California.

In 2003, Stonyfield Farm

Stonyfield Farm

Stonyfield Farm, also simply called Stonyfield, is an organic yogurt maker located in Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA. Stonyfield Farm was founded by Samuel Kaymen in 1983, in Wilton, New Hampshire, as an organic farming school...

 acquired Brown Cow. Stonyfield is largely owned (85%) by Danone

Groupe Danone

Groupe Danone is a French food-products multinational corporation based in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It claims world leadership in fresh dairy products, marketed under the corporate name, and also in bottled water...

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