dairy
Milk, cheese, yogurt, and butter are dairy foods. This topic is part of Food within Food & Drink. This page currently draws on 13 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
dairy trivia questions
Dairy products are made primarily from what?
Answer: Milk
Bonus fact: Milk, cheese, yogurt, and butter are dairy foods.
Which process kills many harmful microbes in milk by controlled heating?
Answer: Pasteurization
Bonus fact: Pasteurization improves milk safety.
What process breaks milk fat into tiny droplets so cream does not separate easily?
Answer: Homogenization
Bonus fact: Homogenization disperses fat throughout milk.
A cappuccino is made with espresso and what dairy ingredient?
Answer: Steamed milk
Bonus fact: Cappuccino combines espresso, steamed milk, and milk foam.
Dairy farming raises animals primarily for what?
Answer: Milk
Bonus fact: Cows are the most common dairy animals in many countries.
Besides cows, which animals are widely used for dairy production?
Answer: Goats and sheep
Bonus fact: Goat and sheep milk are important in many regions.
The water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, was domesticated primarily in which broad region?
Answer: Asia
Bonus fact: Domestic water buffalo have long been important working and dairy animals across Asia.
Sorbet is a frozen dessert made mainly from fruit, sugar, and what?
Answer: Water
Bonus fact: Sorbet usually contains no dairy.
Despite its name, the 1969 Woodstock festival was actually held near which New York town?
Answer: Bethel
Bonus fact: The festival took place on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel.
Bog butter is an archaeological find most associated with which countries?
Answer: Ireland and Scotland
Bonus fact: Tubs or lumps of ancient dairy fat have been found in peat bogs.
Prahok is sometimes nicknamed what in English because of its importance in Cambodian cooking?
Answer: Cambodian cheese
Bonus fact: The nickname refers to its strong aroma and role as a flavoring staple, not to any dairy content.
How does sorbet differ from ice cream?
Answer: It usually contains no dairy fat
Bonus fact: Sorbet is primarily fruit and sugar syrup.