Dairy product

Dairy products are derived from milk

Milk products and production relationships

Dairy products or milk products are a type of food produced from or containing the milk of mammals, primarily cattle, water buffaloes, goats, sheep, camels, and Humans. Dairy products include food items such as yogurt, cheese, and butter. A facility that produces dairy products is known as a dairy, or dairy factory. Dairy products are consumed worldwide, with the exception of much of East and Southeast Asia and also some parts of central Africa.

Types of dairy products

See also: List of dairy products

A dairy farm

A selection of three common dairy products made by a South African dairy company: a box of full cream, long life milk, a bottle of strawberry drinking yogurt, and a carton of passion fruit yogurt

The milk products of the Water buffaloes (super carabaos, Philippine Carabao Center)

• Milk after optional homogenization, pasteurization, in several grades after standardization of the fat level, and possible addition of the bacteria Streptococcus lactis and Leuconostoc citrovorum
  • Crème fraîche, slightly fermented cream
    • Clotted cream, thick, spoonable cream made by heating milk
    • Single cream, double cream and whipping cream
    • Smetana, Central and Eastern European variety of sour cream
  • Cultured milk resembling buttermilk, but uses different yeast and bacterial cultures
  • Kefir, fermented milk drink from the Northern Caucasus
  • Kumis/Airag, slightly fermented mares' milk popular in Central Asia
  • Powdered milk (or milk powder), produced by removing the water from (usually skim) milk
    • Whole milk products
    • Buttermilk products
    • Skim milk
    • Whey products
    • High milk-fat and nutritional products (for infant formulas)
    • Cultured and confectionery products
  • Condensed milk, milk which has been concentrated by evaporation, with sugar added for reduced process time and longer life in an opened can
  • Khoa, milk which has been completely concentrated by evaporation, used in Indian cuisine including gulab jamun, peda, etc.)
  • Evaporated milk, (less concentrated than condensed) milk without added sugar
  • Ricotta, acidified whey, reduced in volume
  • 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 feed
  • Ghee, clarified butter, by gentle heating of butter and removal of the solid matter
  • Smen, a fermented, clarified butter used in Moroccan cooking
  • Anhydrous milkfat (clarified butter)
• 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
  • Paneer
  • Whey, the liquid drained from curds and used for further processing or as a livestock feed
  • Cottage cheese
  • Quark
  • Cream cheese, produced by the addition of cream to milk and then curdled to form a rich curd or cheese
  • Fromage frais
• Casein are
  • Caseinates, sodium or calcium salts of casein
  • Milk protein concentrates and isolates
  • Whey protein concentrates and isolates, reduced lactose whey
  • Hydrolysates, milk treated with proteolytic enzymes to alter functionality
  • Mineral concentrates, byproduct of demineralizing whey
• Yogurt, milk fermented by Streptococcus salivarius ssp. thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus sometimes with additional bacteria, such as Lactobacillus acidophilus
  • Doogh
  • Lassi, Indian subcontinent
  • Leben
• Clabber, milk naturally fermented to a yogurt-like state
• Gelato, slowly frozen milk and water, lesser fat than ice cream
• Ice cream, slowly frozen cream, milk, flavors and emulsifying additives (dairy ice cream)
  • Ice milk, low-fat version of ice cream
  • Frozen custard
  • Frozen yogurt, yogurt with emulsifiers
• Other
  • Viili
  • Kajmak
  • Filmjölk
  • Piimä
  • Vla
  • Dulce de leche
  • Skyr
  • Junket, milk solidified with rennet
  • Quiche
  • Milk Chocolate

Health

Dairy products can cause some issues for individuals who have lactose intolerance or a milk allergy.

Additionally dairy products can contribute significant amounts of cholesterol and saturated fat to the diet which can increase the risk of heart disease, and cause other serious health problems. However, it has been shown that there is no connection between dairy consumption (excluding butter) and cardiovascular disease, even though dairy tends to be higher in saturated fats.

There is no excess cardiovascular risk with dietary calcium intake but calcium supplements are associated with a higher risk of coronary artery calcification.

Drinking milk or other dairy products does not cause mucus production, and will not make cold or asthma symptoms worse. This widely held belief stems from some people mistaking the thin coat of residue left behind after consuming milk or ice cream for mucus.

Consumption patterns worldwide

Rates of dairy consumption vary widely worldwide. High-consumption countries consume more than 150 kg per capita per year: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Costa Rica, Europe, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, North America and Pakistan. Medium-consumption countries consume 30 to 150 kg per capita per year: India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, New Zealand, North and Southern Africa, most of the Middle East, and most of Latin America and the Caribbean. Low-consumption countries consume under 30 kg per capita per year: Senegal, most of Central Africa, and most of East and Southeast Asia.

Avoidance

Some groups avoid dairy products for non-health related reasons:

• Religious – Some religions restrict or do not allow for the consumption of dairy products. For example, some scholars of Jainism advocate not consuming any dairy products because dairy is perceived to involve violence against cows. Strict Judaism requires that meat and dairy products not be served at the same meal, served or cooked in the same utensils, or stored together, as prescribed in Deuteronomy 14:21.
• Ethical – Veganism is the avoidance of all animal products, including dairy products, most often due to the ethics regarding how dairy products are produced. The ethical reasons for avoiding dairy include how dairy is produced, how the animals are handled, and the environmental effect of dairy production.
• Social - According to social scientist Mbachilin Arsha Leo, who spoke on issues relating to the microbiological integrity of the dairy food chain, such as the ecology of pathogenic and spoilage organisms through the dairy farm to fork paradigm, genomic analysis of these contaminants, their behaviour/survival through this stream, and novel strategies for their control.

See also

• Fermented milk products
• List of dairy products
• List of dairy product companies in the United States
• List of foods
• Plant milk

References

• Britannica, Enclyclopaedia. "Encyclopædia Britannica".

Further reading

• Rankin, H. F. (1922) Imbucase: the Story of the B. C. I. C. of the Ministry of Food. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Press (B.C.I.C.=Butter and Cheese Imports Committee)

External links

• Questions and Answers on dairy products
• Guide for homemade kefir