Dairy Ingredients in Food
Milk-derived ingredients include milk, cream, cheese, whey and casein. Milk is one of the nine major food allergens that must be declared on US food labels.
Evaporated
Evaporated milk is a shelf-stable dairy product made by heating cow's milk to remove about 60% of its water content. …
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Parmesan Cheese Pasteurized Cultured Milk
Parmesan cheese is a hard, dry cheese made from cow's milk. It is produced in Italy and aged for at …
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Colby And Monterey Jack
Colby and Monterey Jack is a popular marbled cheese that combines two distinct types of cheese: Colby and Monterey Jack. …
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Cultured Cream Nonfat Dry Milk
Cultured cream is made by adding a bacterial culture to cream, which causes it to thicken and develop a tangy …
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Cheddar Cheese Cheddar Cheese Pasteurized Milk
Cheddar cheese is a popular hard cheese made from cow's milk. It is produced by curdling milk, pressing the curds …
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Non Fat Buttermilk Whey
Nonfat buttermilk whey is a byproduct of making cheese or casein from milk. It is the liquid remaining after milk …
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Parmesan Cheese Flavored Powder
Parmesan cheese flavored powder is a dried, powdered form of Parmesan cheese. It is made by dehydrating real Parmesan cheese, …
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Condensed Milk Coconut With Sodium Metabisulfite
Condensed milk made from coconut milk, sweetened with sugar and often thickened. Sodium metabisulfite is added as a preservative.
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Butter From Cow's Milk
Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It consists of butterfat, milk proteins, …
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Cultured Non-fat Milk Solids
Cultured non-fat milk solids are made from skim milk that has been fermented by beneficial bacteria, often called probiotics. The …
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41% Milk Chocolate
Milk chocolate is a sweet confection made from cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk powder or condensed milk. The …
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Cream And Natural Flavoring
Cream is the high-fat layer skimmed from the top of milk. Natural flavoring is a complex mixture of aromatic compounds …
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Salted Sweet Cream Butter
Salted sweet cream butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh, pasteurized cream until the milk fats separate from …
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Rbst Free Milk Powder
Milk powder is made by removing water from pasteurized milk. This can be done through spray drying, where milk is …
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Dehydrated Cheddar Cheese Blend
This ingredient is a dried form of cheddar cheese, a hard, natural cheese made from cow's milk. To create it, …
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Monterey Jack Cheese With Fiesta Pepper Blend
Monterey Jack cheese is a semi-hard American cheese, typically white or pale yellow, known for its mild, buttery, and slightly …
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Live And Active Cultures: Streptococcus Thermophilus
Streptococcus thermophilus is a type of bacteria commonly used in food production. It is a lactic acid bacterium, meaning it …
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Milk With Vitamin D
Milk with Vitamin D is a dairy product, typically from cows, that has been fortified with vitamin D. After pasteurization …
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Organic Kefir
Kefir is a fermented milk drink made by adding kefir grains to milk. The grains, a symbiotic culture of bacteria …
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L Lactis
Lactococcus lactis is a species of lactic acid bacteria. It is commonly found in dairy products and plants. It is …
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Crust Butter
Crust butter refers to butter specifically used in the preparation of food crusts. Butter is a dairy product made by …
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Pasteurized Process Cheese: Cultured Pasteurized Milk
Pasteurized process cheese is a food product made by blending one or more cheeses with an emulsifier and then heating …
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Each: Light Cream
Light cream is a dairy product made from the fatty part of milk. It contains less milk fat than heavy …
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Nonfat Dry Milk Salt
Nonfat dry milk is a dairy product made by removing water from pasteurized skim milk. The resulting powder contains protein, …
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Sweet Whey Milk
Sweet whey is a byproduct of cheesemaking. It is the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained. It …
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Milk Chocolate Drop
A milk chocolate drop is a small, solid piece of milk chocolate, often shaped like a disc or chip. It …
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Parmesan Cheese Parmesan Cheese Pasteurized Milk
Parmesan cheese is a hard, dry, granular cheese made from cow's milk. It is produced in Italy and aged for …
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Yogurt Base
Yogurt base is a term used for the liquid or semi-liquid mixture that forms the foundation of yogurt products. It …
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Cultured Fat Free Buttermilk
Cultured fat-free buttermilk is made from skim milk that has been fermented by adding lactic acid bacteria. This process gives …
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Romano & Parmesan Cheeses
Romano and Parmesan cheeses are hard, aged cheeses commonly used in cooking. Romano cheese is traditionally made from sheep's milk, …
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Sheep & Goat Milk
Milk from sheep and goats is a white liquid produced by female sheep and goats. It is a primary source …
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Dehydrated Four Cheese Blend
This ingredient is a mixture of dried cheeses, typically including cheddar, parmesan, romano, and swiss. The cheeses are dehydrated to …
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Fresh Buttermilk
Fresh buttermilk is the liquid left over after churning butter from cream. Traditionally, it was the sour milk left behind. …
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Low-moisture Whole Milk Mozzarella Cheese Pasteurized Milk
Low-moisture whole milk mozzarella cheese is a semi-soft cheese made from pasteurized whole cow's milk. It is produced by heating …
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Lowfat Greek Yogurt Powder
Lowfat Greek yogurt powder is made by drying lowfat Greek yogurt. This process removes water, concentrating the yogurt's solids into …
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Pasteurized Cultured Cow's Milk And Cream
This ingredient is made from cow's milk that has been pasteurized (heated to kill harmful bacteria) and then cultured. Culturing …
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Pasturized Part-skim Milk
Pasteurized part-skim milk is cow's milk that has had some of its fat removed and has been heated to a …
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Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Milk And Nonfat Milk Solids
This ingredient is a combination of milk that has been cultured and pasteurized, along with nonfat milk solids. Culturing involves …
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Cheese: Romano Type Cheese
Romano type cheese is a hard, salty cheese known for its strong flavor. It is traditionally made from sheep's milk, …
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Cultured Light Cream
Cultured light cream is a dairy product made by fermenting light cream with bacterial cultures. These cultures thicken the cream …
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Dehydrated Cheddar
Dehydrated cheddar is a dried form of cheddar cheese. It is made by removing most of the water content from …
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Skim Milk Water
Skim milk water is a liquid ingredient made by removing most of the fat and water from milk. It is …
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Whole Milk Yogurt
Whole milk yogurt is a dairy product made by fermenting milk from cows. Bacteria, specifically lactic acid bacteria like Lactobacillus …
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Mil
Milk is a nutrient-rich liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. In the US, the term "milk" typically …
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Dry Grated Parmesan Cheese
Dry grated Parmesan cheese is a hard, granular cheese made from cow's milk. It is aged for a specific period, …
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Cheese: Fresh Asiago Cheese
Asiago is a cow's milk cheese that originated in the Veneto region of Italy. It is typically made from unpasteurized …
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Italian Hard Cheese
Italian hard cheese refers to a category of aged, firm cheeses, often made from cow's milk, though some varieties use …
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Romano Cheese Part-skim Cow's Milk
Romano cheese is a hard, salty Italian-style cheese. When made from part-skim cow's milk, it has a lower fat content …
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Reduced-fat Dried Whole Milk
Reduced-fat dried whole milk is made from cow's milk from which about 25% of the fat has been removed. The …
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Cheddar And Parmesan Cheeses
Cheddar and Parmesan cheeses are dairy products made from milk. They are produced by curdling milk, separating the curds from …
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Other ingredient types
Note:
This site presents label data from USDA FoodData Central for general information. It is not medical advice.
Check the package label; formulations change.