Dairy products are foodstuffs produced from milk. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy. Raw milk for processing normally comes from cows, but occasionally from other mammals such as goats, sheep, water buffalo, yaks or horses.
Dairy products include:
- Milk, after optional homogenization, pasteurization, in several grades after standardization of the fat level
- Cream, the fat skimmed off the top of milk
- Sour cream, cream that has been fermented by the bacteria, Streptococcus lactis and Leuconostoc citrovorum
- Crème fraiche, slightly fermented cream
- Cultured buttermilk[?], fermented milk using the same bacteria as sour cream
- Ice cream, slowly frozen cream
- Milk powder[?] (or powdered milk), produced by removing the water from milk
- Condensed milk[?], milk which has been concentrated by evaporation
- Sweetened evaporated milk[?], concentrated milk with added sugar
- Khoa[?]
- Infant formula
- Cream, the fat skimmed off the top of milk
- Butter, mostly milk fat, produced by churning cream
- Buttermilk, the liquid left over after producing butter from cream
- Butter cream[?]?
- Ghee
- Cheese, produced by coagulating milk, separating from whey and letting it ripen
- Yogurt, milk fermented by Streptococcus thermophiles and either Lactobacillus acidophilus or L. bulgaricus
- Other
Got Milk?[?] is an international organization supporting Dairy products, especially milk.