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Dairy products are generally defined as food
Food

Food is any substance, usually composed of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and water, that can be Eating or Drinking by an animal or human for nutrition or pleasure....
stuffs produced from milk
Milk

Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals . It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digestion other types of food....
. They are usually high-energy-yielding food products. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy
Dairy

A dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk—mostly from goat or cattle, but also from bovine, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption....
 or a dairy factory. Raw milk for processing generally comes from cow
Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
s, but occasionally from other mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s such as goats, sheep
Domestic sheep

Domestic sheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates....
, water buffalo, yak
Yak

The yak is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia....
s, or horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
s. Dairy products are commonly found in European
European cuisine

European cuisine, or alternatively Western cuisine is a generalized term collectively referring to the cuisines of Europe and other Western world....
, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine
Indian cuisine

The cuisine of India is characterized by its sophisticated and subtle use of many spices and vegetables grown across India and also for the widespread practice of vegetarianism across its society....
, whereas they are almost unknown in East Asian cuisine.



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Dairy products are generally defined as food
Food

Food is any substance, usually composed of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and water, that can be Eating or Drinking by an animal or human for nutrition or pleasure....
stuffs produced from milk
Milk

Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals . It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digestion other types of food....
. They are usually high-energy-yielding food products. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy
Dairy

A dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk—mostly from goat or cattle, but also from bovine, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption....
 or a dairy factory. Raw milk for processing generally comes from cow
Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
s, but occasionally from other mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s such as goats, sheep
Domestic sheep

Domestic sheep are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates....
, water buffalo, yak
Yak

The yak is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia....
s, or horse
Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
s. Dairy products are commonly found in European
European cuisine

European cuisine, or alternatively Western cuisine is a generalized term collectively referring to the cuisines of Europe and other Western world....
, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine
Indian cuisine

The cuisine of India is characterized by its sophisticated and subtle use of many spices and vegetables grown across India and also for the widespread practice of vegetarianism across its society....
, whereas they are almost unknown in East Asian cuisine.

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Types of dairy products

  • Milk
    Milk

    Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals . It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digestion other types of food....
    , after optional homogenization
    Homogenization

    Homogenization is a term used in many fields such as chemistry, mathematics, agricultural science, food technology, sociology and cell biology....
    , pasteurization
    Pasteurization

    Pasteurization is a process which slows microbial growth in foods. The process was named after its creator, France chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur....
    , in several grades of bacteria Streptococcus lactis and Leuconostoc citrovorum
    • Crème fraîche
      Crème fraîche

      Cr?me fra?che , of France origin, is the Western European counterpart to the soured cream more traditional to Western Europe and Anglophone cultures....
      , slightly fermented cream
      • Smetana, Central and Eastern European variety of sour cream
      • Clotted cream
        Clotted cream

        Clotted cream is a thick yellow cream made by heating unpasteurized cow's milk and then leaving it in shallow pans for several hours. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms 'clots'....
        , thick spoonable cream made by heating
    • Cultured buttermilk, fermented concentrated (water removed) milk using the same bacteria as sour cream
    • Kefir
      Kefir

      Kefir is a Fermentation milk drink that originated in the Caucasus region. It is prepared by inoculating Cattle, goat, or sheep's milk with kefir grains....
      , fermented milk drink resembling buttermilk but based on different yeast and bacteria culture
    • Milk powder
      Powdered milk

      Powdered milk is a manufactured dairy product made by evaporating milk to Drying . One purpose of drying milk is to preserve it; milk powder has a far longer shelf life than liquid milk and does not need to be refrigeration, due to its low moisture content....
       (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 confectionery powders
    • Condensed milk
      Condensed milk

      Condensed milk, also known as sweetened condensed milk, is Milk#Cow's milk from which water has been removed and to which sugar has been added, yielding a very thick, sweet product that can last for years without refrigeration if unopened....
      , milk which has been concentrated by evaporation, often with sugar added for longer life in an opened can
    • Evaporated milk
      Evaporated milk

      Evaporated milk, also known as dehydrated milk, is a shelf stable food canned milk product with about 60% of the water removed from fresh milk. It differs from condensed milk, which contains added sugar....
      , (less concentrated than condensed) milk without added sugar
    • Ricotta cheese
      Ricotta cheese

      Ricotta is an Italian cuisine sheep milk or cow milk whey cheese. Ricotta lit. 'recooked' uses the whey, a limpid, low-fat, nutritious liquid that is a by-product of cheese production....
      , milk heated and reduced in volume, known in Indian cuisine as Khoa
      Khoa (food)

      Khoa or khoya or khawa or mawa is a milk food, made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating milk in an open iron pan....
    • Infant formula
      Infant formula

      Infant formula is an artificial substitute for human breast milk, intended for infant consumption. The first preparations for the feeding of infants were produced commercially in 1867 by Justus von Liebig....
      , dried milk powder with specific additives for feeding human infants
    • Baked milk
      Baked milk

      File:Baked_milk.jpgBaked milk is a variety of boiling milk that has been particularly popular in Russia and Ukraine. It is made by cooking boiled milk on low heat for eight hours or more....
      , a variety of boiled milk that has been particularly popular in Russia
      Russia

      Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Butter
    Butter

    Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermentation cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying....
    , mostly milk fat, produced by churning cream
    • Buttermilk
      Buttermilk

      Buttermilk is a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk with a characteristically sour taste. The product is made in one of two ways....
      , the liquid left over after producing butter from cream, often dried as livestock
      Livestock

      Livestock is the term used to refer to a domesticated animal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to produce things such as food or fibre, or for its labour....
       food
    • Ghee
      Ghee

      Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in the Indian subcontinent, and is important in South Asian cuisine and Middle Eastern cuisine ....
      , clarified butter, by gentle heating of butter and removal of the solid matter
    • Anhydrous
      Anhydrous

      As a general term, a substance is said to be anhydrous if it contains no water. The way of achieving the anhydrous form differs from one substance to another....
       milkfat
  • Cheese
    Cheese

    Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
    , produced by coagulating milk, separating from whey and letting it ripen, generally with bacteria and sometimes also with certain mold
    Mold

    Molds include all species of microscopic fungi that grow in the form of Multicellular organism filaments, called hyphae. In contrast, microscopic fungi that grow as single cells are called yeasts....
    s
    • Curd
      Curd

      Curds is a dairy product obtained by curdling milk with rennet or an edible acidic substance such as lemon juice or vinegar and then draining off the liquid portion ....
      s, 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 livestock food
    • Cottage cheese
      Cottage cheese

      Cottage cheese is a cheese curd product with a mild flavor. It is drained, but not pressed so some whey remains. The curd is usually washed to remove acidity giving sweet curd cheese....
    • Quark
      Quark (cheese)

      Quark is a type of fresh cheese of Central European origin. Dictionaries usually translate it as curd cheese. It is soft, white and un-aged, similar to Fromage frais....
    • Cream cheese
      Cream cheese

      Cream cheese is a sweet, soft, mild-tasting, white cheese, defined by the US Department of Agriculture as containing at least 33% milkfat with a moisture content of not more than 55%, and a pH range of 4.4 to 4.9....
      , 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
      Fromage frais

      Fromage frais is a dairy product, originating from Belgium and north of France. The name literally means "fresh cheese" .Pure fromage frais is virtually fat free, but cream is frequently added to improve the flavor, which also increases the fat content, frequently to as high as 8 percent of total weight....
  • Casein
    Casein

    Casein is the predominant phosphoprotein that accounts for nearly 80% of proteins in cow milk and cheese. Milk-clotting proteases act on the soluble portion of the caseins, K-Casein, thus originating an unstable micelle state that results in clot formation....
    • Caseinates
    • Milk protein
      Protein

      Proteins are organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of adjacent amino acid Residue ....
       concentrates and isonates
    • Whey
      Whey

      Whey or milk plasma is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained; it is a by-product of the manufacture of cheese or casein and has several commercial uses....
       protein concentrates and isonates
    • Hydrolysates
    • Mineral
      Mineral

      A mineral is a naturally occurring solid formed through Geology processes that has a characteristic chemical composition, a highly ordered atomic structure, and specific physical properties....
       concentrates
  • Yogurt
    Yoghurt

    Yoghurt, yogurt, yoghourt, youghurt or yogourt , is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk....
    , milk fermented by Streptococcus
    Streptococcus

    Streptococcus is a genus of sphere Gram-positive bacterium belonging to the phylum Firmicutes and the lactic acid bacteria group. Cell division occurs along a single Coordinate axis in these bacteria, and thus they grow in chains or pairs, hence the name — from Greek language st?ept?? streptos, meaning easily bent or twisted,...
     salivarius ssp. thermophilus     and Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus sometimes with additional bacteria, such as Lactobacillus
    Lactobacillus

    Lactobacillus is a genus of Gram-positive facultative anaerobic or microaerophilic bacteria. They are a major part of the lactic acid bacteria group, named as such because most of its members convert lactose and other sugars to lactic acid....
     acidophilus
    • Ayran
      Ayran

      Ayran or airan is a drink made of yoghurt and water, popular in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Lebanon, Bulgaria and other parts of the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central Asia....
    • Lassi
      Lassi

      Lassi is a popular and traditional South Asian drink originating from North India. It is made by blending yoghurt with water, salt, pepper, ice and spices until frothy....
  • Gelato
    Gelato

    Gelato, or the plural Gelati, is Italian ice cream made from a liquid, milk or water; a solid, sugar, fats or sweeteners; flavorings, pastes, fruit powders; stabilizers, guar gum, locust bean, etc.; emulsifiers, mono- and digylcerides; and air....
    , slowly frozen milk and water, lesser fat than ice cream
  • Ice cream
    Ice cream

    Ice cream or ice-cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, combined with fruits or other ingredients....
    , slowly frozen cream and emulsifying additives
    • Ice milk
      Ice milk

      Ice milk or iced milk is a frozen dessert with less than 10 percent milk fat and the same sweetener content as ice cream. Ice milk is typically priced lower than ice cream and is typically sold as a inferior goods....
    • Frozen custard
      Frozen custard

      Frozen custard is a cold dessert similar to ice cream, made with egg in addition to cream and sugar. It typically contains 10% butterfat and 1.4% egg yolk....
    • Frozen yogurt
      Frozen yogurt

      Frozen yogurt is a frozen dessert made from or containing yoghurt or dairy analogues. Frozen yogurt is a dessert similar to ice cream, but lower in fat....
      , yogurt with emulsifiers that is frozen
  • Other
    • Kumis
      Kumis

      Kumis is a Fermented milk products traditionally made from mare milk. The drink remains important to the people of the Central Asian steppes, including the Turkish people, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Mongols, Yakuts and Uzbeks....
      /Airag
      Airag

      Airag may refer to*Airag, also spelled ayrag, the Mongolian word for fermented horse milk, see kumis, the name under which it is more widely known throughout Central Asia...
      , slightly fermented mares' milk popular in Central Asia
      Central Asia

      Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
    • Viili
      Viili

      Viili is a kind of yoghurt that originated in the Nordic countries. It has a ropy, gelatinous consistency and a sour, rancid taste resulting from lactic acid....
    • Kajmak
    • Kefir
      Kefir

      Kefir is a Fermentation milk drink that originated in the Caucasus region. It is prepared by inoculating Cattle, goat, or sheep's milk with kefir grains....
    • Filmjölk
      Filmjölk

      Filmj?lk is a Sweden mesophilic fermented milk product that is made by fermenting cow's milk with a variety of bacteria from the species Lactococcus lactis and Leuconostoc mesenteroides....
    • Piimä
    • Vla
      Vla

      Vla is the name of two Dutch food products. One is a pie, called vla in the south, whence it originates, but more commonly known as vlaai....
    • Dulce de leche
      Dulce de leche

      Dulce de leche in Spanish language or doce de leite in Portuguese language , is a milk-based sauce. Found as both a syrup and a caramel candy, it is prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk to create a product that is similar in taste to caramel....
    • Uloo kao patha laeen ka


Health risks of consuming dairy products

Dairy may cause health issues for individuals with lactose intolerance and milk allergies. Vegans and some vegetarians avoid dairy products due to a variety of ethical, dietary
Diet (nutrition)

In nutrition, the diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat....
, environmental, political, and religious concerns.

See also

  • Human milk banking in North America
    Human Milk Banking In North America

    A human milk bank is "a service which collects, screens, processes, and dispenses by prescription breast milk donated by breastfeeding mothers who are not biologically related to the recipient infant"....


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