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.
Dried Cream
Dried cream is a dairy product made by removing most of the water from cream. It is typically produced by …
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Cream Solids
Cream solids are made from milk by removing water and milk solids. This process concentrates the milk's fat and protein …
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Smoked Gouda Cheese
Smoked Gouda is a semi-hard cheese originating from the Netherlands. It is made from cow's milk and is known for …
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Dry Cream
Dry cream, also known as cream powder or dried cream, is a dairy product made by removing water from liquid …
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Active Yogurt Cultures L
Active yogurt cultures are live bacteria, most commonly strains of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium. These bacteria ferment lactose, the sugar in …
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Dairy Cultures
Dairy cultures are live microorganisms, typically bacteria, that are added to milk or dairy products. They are used to ferment …
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Alfredo Sauce
Alfredo sauce is a rich, creamy sauce originating from Rome, Italy. It is traditionally made with butter, heavy cream, and …
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Imported Pecorino Romano Cheese
Pecorino Romano is a hard, salty Italian cheese made from sheep's milk. It is one of the world's oldest cheeses, …
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Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Shredded cheddar cheese is a type of cheese made from cow's milk. It is produced by culturing milk, then adding …
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Pasteurized Cultured Cream
Pasteurized cultured cream is a dairy product made by adding a starter culture of bacteria to pasteurized cream. These bacteria …
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Imported Romano Cheese
Romano cheese is a hard, salty Italian cheese traditionally made from sheep's milk. It is made in a similar way …
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Dried Whole Milk
Dried whole milk is made by removing water from pasteurized whole milk. The resulting powder contains the milk's natural fat …
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Bovine
Bovine refers to cattle, specifically cows. The term is used in food ingredient lists to indicate that a product is …
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Cream And Salt
Cream is the rich, fatty part of milk that rises to the top. Salt is a mineral compound, sodium chloride, …
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Fresh Cream
Fresh cream is the fatty part of milk that rises to the top when milk is left to stand. It …
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Cultured Lowfat Buttermilk
Cultured lowfat buttermilk is the liquid byproduct of making butter from lowfat milk. It is made by adding a bacterial …
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Cheddar And Colby Cheese
Cheddar and Colby are popular types of semi-hard cheeses made from cow's milk. Their production involves curdling milk with rennet …
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Fresh Whole Milk
Fresh whole milk is milk from a cow that has not had its fat content altered. It contains all of …
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Dehydrated Romano Cheese
Dehydrated Romano cheese is a hard, salty Italian cheese made from cow's milk or a mixture of cow's and sheep's …
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Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese
Parmigiano Reggiano is a hard, granular cheese originating from the Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, and Bologna provinces of Italy. It …
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Organic Buttermilk Powder
Organic buttermilk powder is a dried form of buttermilk, a byproduct of butter production. It is made by pasteurizing liquid …
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Grade A Cream
Grade A Cream is the high-fat liquid portion of milk that separates from the skim milk. It is obtained by …
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Organic Pasteurized Cream
Organic pasteurized cream is the fatty portion of organic milk that has been separated and heated to kill harmful bacteria. …
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Cultured Nonfat Dry Milk
Cultured nonfat dry milk is made from skim milk that has been fermented by beneficial bacteria, often Lactobacillus species. This …
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Dairy Solids
Dairy solids are concentrated milk products made by removing water from milk. This process can be done through evaporation or …
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Asiago And Romano Cheese Blend
Asiago and Romano cheese blend is a mixture of two distinct Italian-style cheeses. Asiago cheese is typically made from cow's …
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Pasteurized Cream And Milk
Pasteurized cream and milk are dairy products derived from cows, goats, or sheep. Pasteurization is a process of heating milk …
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Monterey Jack
Monterey Jack is a semi-hard American cheese made from cow's milk. It is a pale yellow to white cheese, known …
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Cheese Whey
Cheese whey is the liquid byproduct of cheesemaking. It is primarily water, but also contains lactose (milk sugar), proteins, minerals, …
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Reduced Mineral Whey
Reduced mineral whey is a byproduct of cheesemaking. It is made by removing some of the minerals, primarily calcium and …
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Sweet Cream Solids
Sweet cream solids are a dairy ingredient made from pasteurized cream. The cream is dried to remove most of its …
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Deproteinized Whey
Deproteinized whey is a byproduct of cheese and whey protein concentrate production. It is made by removing most of the …
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Grade A Pasteurized Cultured Reduced Fat Milk
This ingredient is milk from cows that has been pasteurized (heated to kill germs) and then had a bacterial culture …
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Unsmoked Provolone Cheese
Unsmoked provolone cheese, also known as Provolone Dolce, is a semi-hard Italian cheese made from cow's milk. It is produced …
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Pasteurized Heavy Cream
Pasteurized heavy cream is the high-fat layer skimmed from the top of unhomogenized milk. It contains at least 36% milk …
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Bleu Cheese
Bleu cheese is a type of cheese made from cow's, sheep's, or goat's milk that is distinguished by blue or …
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Organic Lowfat Milk
Organic lowfat milk is cow's milk from cows raised on certified organic feed, without the use of synthetic pesticides or …
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Gruyere Cheese
Gruyère is a hard, pale yellow cheese originating from Switzerland. It is made from cow's milk and is known for …
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Strained Yogurt
Strained yogurt is a type of yogurt that has been thickened by removing most of its whey. This process results …
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Organic Unsalted Butter
Organic unsalted butter is a dairy product made by churning cream from cows raised according to organic farming standards. This …
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Reduced Fat Monterey Jack Cheese
Reduced Fat Monterey Jack cheese is a semi-firm, pale yellow cheese made from cow's milk. It is produced by removing …
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Cultured Pasteurized Grade A Cream
Cultured pasteurized Grade A cream is a dairy product made from cream that has been pasteurized (heated to kill harmful …
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Blue Cheese Crumbles
Blue cheese crumbles are pieces of blue cheese, a type of dairy product made from cow's, sheep's, or goat's milk. …
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Active Yogurt Cultures
Active yogurt cultures are live bacteria, most commonly Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. These bacteria ferment lactose (sugar) in milk, …
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Pasteurized Milk And Part-skim Milk
This ingredient is milk from cows that has been heated to kill harmful bacteria. 'Part-skim' means some of the fat …
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Cultured Pasteurized Goat Milk
This ingredient is milk from domestic goats that has been pasteurized and then cultured with beneficial bacteria. The culturing process …
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Pasteurized Lowfat Milk
Pasteurized lowfat milk is cow's milk that has had some of its fat removed and has been heated to kill …
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Organic Monterey Jack Cheese
Monterey Jack is a semi-hard American cheese made from cow's milk. It originated in California in the 19th century. It …
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Cultured Pasteurized Skim Milk And Milk
This ingredient is made from skim milk that has been pasteurized (heated to kill harmful bacteria) and then cultured. Culturing …
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Mozzarella Cheese Blend: Mozzarella Cheese Substitute
Mozzarella cheese substitute is a product designed to mimic the taste, texture, and melting properties of real mozzarella cheese. It …
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This site presents label data from USDA FoodData Central for general information. It is not medical advice.
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