Dairy products are one of the important sources of dietary protein, calcium, vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin B, and are closely related to human health. Increasing milk intake is conducive to the growth and development of children and adolescents and promotes bone health in adults.

Common sources of milk are cow's milk, goat's milk, horse's milk, etc., of which milk is the most consumed. Fresh milk can be processed into various dairy products, such as liquid milk, milk powder, yogurt, cheese and condensed milk, which are common in the market.

Compared with liquid milk, yogurt, cheese, and milk powder have different flavors and different protein concentrations. You can try more to make your diet more varied. Let's take a look at these dairy products.

1. Milk

The most common dairy product on the market is milk. There are actually many types of milk, such as full-fat, non-fat, sugar-added, sugar-free and so on.

But it is better for everyone to drink pure milk, because pure milk can preserve milk nutrition to the greatest extent, without many additives, and it is indeed more beneficial to our body.

2. Milk powder

Milk powder is a powder made by removing water from milk, which is suitable for storage. At present, infant milk powder is mostly made of cow's milk as the basic raw material and then simulate the ingredients of human breast milk as much as possible.

3. Yogurt

It generally refers to yogurt, which is a milk product that uses fresh milk as raw material, and then adds beneficial bacteria to the milk after sterilization. After fermentation, it is cooled and filled.

At present, yogurt products on the market are mostly solidified, stirred, and fruity with various fruit juice jams and other accessories.

Yogurt not only retains all the advantages of milk, but also enhances the strengths and avoids weaknesses in some aspects, and becomes a more suitable nutritional and health care product for human beings.

4. Cheese

Cheese is a fermented milk product. Its properties are similar to common yogurt.Cheese, like yogurt, also contains lactic acid bacteria that can provide health care, but cheese has a higher concentration than yogurt, which is similar to solid food, and has richer nutritional value.

5. Condensed milk

Condensed milk is a product obtained by pasteurizing fresh milk, concentrating it under low temperature and vacuum conditions, evaporating two-thirds of the water, then sealing it in a can, and then heating and sterilizing it.

Because of the high temperature sterilization, the amino acids, lysine, vitamin b1, etc. will be partially destroyed and lost. Condensed milk is suitable for people allergic to fresh milk.

6. Cream

There are many preparation methods to make cream . Usually, fresh milk is fermented in buckets, cans and other containers. After it becomes sour, stir it up and down with a wooden stick repeatedly until the milk and oil are separated, and the white oil floating on the top is skimmed out to be cream.

Use it to mix fried rice or fried noodles with delicious flavor. Put this cream into a pot and heat it up and stir slowly, it can also be cooked to separate a yellow oil, which is butter.