Types of dairy products

  • 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

      • Smetana, Central and Eastern European variety of sour 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 confectionery 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

    • uttermilk, the liquid left over after producing butter from cream, often dried as livestock food

    • 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 livestock food

    • Cottage cheese

    • Quark

    • 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

    • Whey protein concentrates and isonates

    • Hydrolysates

    • Mineral concentrates

  • Yogurt, milk fermented by Streptococcus salivarius ssp. thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus sometimes with additional bacteria, such as Lactobacillus acidophilus

    • 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

    • Kumis/Airag

    • Viili

    • Kajmak

    • Kephir

    • Kumuz, Central Asian drink made by fermenting mares milk

    • Filmjölk

    • Piimä

    • Vla

    • Dulce de leche


source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_product

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