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yogurt Glass bowl filled with creamy homemade yogurt and a wooden spoon, set on a green and yellow checkered cloth with daisies and a milk bottle in the background. Industrial yogurt production line with metal machinery filling rows of plastic cups with yogurt; a worker in a hairnet stands in the background.
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yogurt

dairy food
Also known as: yoghourt, yoghurt, yourt
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yogurt, semifluid fermented milk food having a smooth texture and mildly sour flavour because of its lactic acid content. Yogurt may be made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats, or water buffalo. Cow’s milk is used in the United States and north-central Europe; sheep’s and goat’s milk are preferred in Turkey and southeastern Europe; milk from the water buffalo is most commonly used in Egypt and India. Yogurt may also be produced from nondairy...

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