Strained yogurt
[9] In English, strained yogurt only became well known outside of immigrant communities in the 1980s,[10] when it was imported into the United Kingdom by the Greek company Fage, under the brand name "Total".Strained yogurt is known as labneh or labaneh (labna, labni, labne, lebni, or labani; Arabic: لبنة, Hebrew: לאבנה) in the countries of the Levant, Armenia, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula.[citation needed] Labneh is a popular mezze dish and sandwich ingredient, especially in the Levantine countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.Dry labneh may be mixed with khubz (Arabic bread), water, animal fat, and salt, and rolled into balls.[citation needed] In Egypt, it is eaten with savory accompaniments such as olives and oil, and also with a sweetener such as honey, as a snack or breakfast food.[citation needed] Strained yogurt in Iran is called mâst chekide and is usually used for making dips, or served as a side dish.Strained yogurt is used as dips and various appetizers with multitudes of ingredients: cucumbers, onions, shallots, fresh herbs (dill, spearmint, parsley, cilantro), spinach, walnuts, zereshk, garlic, etc.[citation needed] In Turkish markets, labne is also a popular dairy product but it is different from strained yogurt; it is yogurt-based creamy cheese without salt, and is used like mascarpone.[citation needed] In South Asia, regular unstrained yogurt (curd), made from cow or water buffalo milk, is often sold in disposable clay bowls called kulhar.[20] Shrikhand is a dish made with chakka, sugar, saffron, cardamom, pureed or diced fruit and nuts mixed in; it is often eaten with poori.Fage International S.A. began straining cow milk yogurt for industrial production in Greece in 1975, which is when it launched its brand "Total".[24] However, if the yogurt contains anything other than lactic products, food enzymes and micro-organism cultures a list of ingredients is required on packaging.FAGE, a company that manufactures yogurt in Greece and sells it in the United Kingdom, filed a passing-off claim against Chobani in the UK High Court, claiming that UK consumers understood "Greek" to refer to the country of origin (similar to "Belgian beer"); Chobani's position was that consumers understood "Greek" to refer to a preparation (similar to "French toast").Ultimately Mr Justice Briggs found in favor of FAGE and granted an injunction preventing Chobani from using the name "Greek yogurt".[28] In May 2020, British dairy company Yeo Valley entered the market with an organic product called "Super Thick Kerned Yogurt.[29] The "kerned yogurt" label was the first of its kind, coined in reference to an archaic Somerset term meaning "thickened", which is predominantly used in relation to dairy products.[34] Celebrity chef Graham Kerr became an early adopter of strained yogurt as an ingredient, frequently featuring it (and demonstrating how to strain plain yogurt through a coffee filter) on his eponymous 1990 cooking show, as frequently as he had featured clarified butter on The Galloping Gourmet in the late 1960s.[42] Alternatively, after culturing, the yogurt may be centrifuged or membrane-filtered to remove whey, in a process analogous to the traditional straining step.[48] Yogurt is a rich source of dietary minerals, with calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, and zinc higher in content than in milk.
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