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Dairy products are generally defined as foodstuffs produced from milk. They are usually high-energy-yielding food products. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy or a dairy factory. Raw milk for processing generally comes from cows, but occasionally from other mammals such as goats, sheep, water buffalo, yaks, or horses. Dairy products are commonly found in European, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine, whereas they're almost unknown in East Asian cuisine.

Type of dairy products

*Milk, after optional homogenization, pasteurization, in several grades of bacteria Streptococcus lactis and Leuconostoc citrovorum

Crème fraîche, slightly fermented cream
Smetana, Central and Eastern European variety of sour cream
Clotted cream, thick spoonable cream made by heating

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

Ricotta cheese, milk heated and reduced in volume, known in Indian cuisine as Khoa

Infant formula, dried milk powder with specific additives for feeding human infants

Baked milk, a variety of boiled milk that has been particularly popular in Russia

Butter, mostly milk fat, produced by churning cream

Buttermilk, 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
Milk protein concentrates and isonates
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

Gelato, slowly frozen milk and water

Ice cream, slowly frozen cream and emulsifying additives

Ice milk
Frozen custard
Frozen yogurt, yogurt with emulsifiers that's frozen

Other

Kumis/Airag, slightly fermented mares' milk popular in Central Asia
Viili
Kajmak
Kephir
Filmjölk
Piimä
Vla
Dulce de leche
Uloo kao patha laeen ka

Criticism

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, environmental, political, and religious concerns.

Eggs as dairy?

Eggs are sometimes categorized as dairy, defining dairy as "food that's produced by animals (other than meat)" rather than as milk specifically. For example, the Open Directory Project at one point listed cooking eggs as a subcategory of cooking dairy products. Defining dairy as limited to milk products, however, is more common.

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