Dairy products. List of most popular

Experts recommend starting your day with food made from milk: milk porridges, cheeses, yogurt, curd casseroles. Tasty, but not for everyone, more precisely, not everything. There are those who do not tolerate milk in pure form, but what is made of it is consumed with pleasure.

Sour-milk products, the list of which we will publish below, are considered the most common products on earth since ancient times. It seems, it is not necessary to tell, that the greatest quantity of variations on a theme of use of milk is at cattle-breeding people. Some dishes to us, ordinary inhabitants of a megacity, are simply unknown. For example, few people suspect about the existence of a kurt (korot, kurut, ak-gurta (the name depends on the region)), but this does not prevent it from being popular with its people. By the way, kurt is nothing else than dried yoghurt with salt and spices (the description is strongly exaggerated, but the meaning is correct).

The most popular drink in our country is kefir (a fermented milk product obtained by mixed milk fermentation). No less popular yogurt, but we have it appeared relatively recently (from a historical point of view), so far behind the long-familiar kefir.

For the sake of justice it is necessary to say that in ancient Russia there were not so much sour milk products. The list is, in principle, small. Prostokvasha, cottage cheese and sour cream. Mostly these are natural fermentation products, that is, they did not need to boil milk and add special bacteria for their preparation. Everything happened naturally.

In the countries of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean for the safety of products had to fight (still not as cold as in Russia!). As a result, people needed milk to process as quickly as possible in order to exclude spoilage. So on the light there were various cheeses, as a matter of fact the same sour-milk products. The list is made up of both hard cheeses, and soft, sour-milk and whey. The meaning of cooking is almost the same for all: milk is fermented with special substances at a certain temperature.

It is fair to say that at the moment, not only the recipes of cooking, known for thousands of years, have been preserved, but also new ones, widely used in diet and nutrition, have been created. For example, bifilux, bifid, acidolact, biota (some of them are actively used to prevent dysbacteriosis).

The most popular dairy products

The list is headed by all kinds of cheeses (ricotta, cheddar, suluguni, mozzarella, etc.). Further yoghurts (there are many names, the basis is one - a Bulgarian stick and boiled milk). This is the most actively bought up products. Then kefir and varenets. They are preferred mostly by adult women (according to statistics). Next is sour cream - a dairy product, which is in great demand among men aged 18 to 29 years. On the next place are regional drinks such as ayran, kumis, tan, matsoni, etc.

The most recent in the list for popularity are real originals. For their production, several varieties of milk are used (cow, sheep, mare, etc.) and a Swiss wand (Lactobacillus helveticus), capable of surviving exclusively in high-altitude areas. These sour-milk drinks include chigen, tarak, tar, and others.