Dairy product
A dairy product, dairy product or dairy product is a food, the ingredients of which consists mainly of milk or milk components ( milk protein, milk fat, or milk sugar). Among the dairy products on the one hand different treated milks and on the other hand, obtained by fermentation or extraction of milk constituents of milk products belong.
Legislation
- Trade name (which may be offered under the name of milk or milk product or milk mixed product on the market): The designations of milk, milk products and milk mixed product are defined by law in connection with the milk product regulation in the dairy and fat law
- The term cheese is determined separately by law in the cheese Regulation
- The name of butter is determined separately by law in the butter Regulation
Types of milk products
Untreated milk
- Raw milk (fresh milk ) and raw milk cheese
- Certified milk
Treated milk
- Preserved milk products evaporated milk
- Milk powder, whey powder and cream powder
Extracted / fermented milk products
- Butter ghee
- Halbfettbutter
- Cheese cream cheese
- Soft cheese
- Semi-hard cheese
- Cheese
- Hard cheese
- Milk mixed product
- Whey
- Quark
- Cream Coffee Cream
- Sour milk products ( contain lactic acid ) buttermilk
- Junket
- Yogurt
- Kefir
- Sour cream
- Crème fraîche
Milk, milk components and milk by-products ( whey, buttermilk) are still used in the food industry, bakeries, beverage production, in the manufacture of cosmetics and animal feed as starting materials for numerous other products:
- Ice cream from milk, milk powder, whey powder, milk fat, etc.
- Milk chocolate
- Whey beverages from whey, for example Rivella
- Cosmetics and ointments, for example, goat butter
- Bath products from whey
- Also plastics from casein; Kaseinkunststoffe were the first plastic generation ( eg artificial horn buttons, combs, furniture handles, etc.).