Where cheeses/butter/yogurt come from

[mattbell]

A few days ago I was talking with some friends about how people don't really know where their foods come from and how they're made.  I'd especially love to see a giant flowchart around milk products, with cow/goat/sheep milk at the top and all the different cheeses at the bottom.  A friend mentioned seeing one on a billboard in Canada, but I couldn't find any images of it online.  I did find this, which is painful to read but provides the relevant info:



Here's another one that focuses more on the protein vs fat broken out of the milk.

I'd love to have these charts for various different types of food.  (corn and corn products, beef, ice cream/gelato, wheat, rice, soybeans and all that processed vegetarian stuff).  They'd make nice posters. 

Update:  Here's a way better one, via [Bad username or unknown identity: easwaran  .  ]

Comments

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

You should have checked wikipedia! I ran into this one some time last year when Matt and I were puzzling about some milk term that appeared in Australia but not the US, and we wanted to figure out how it fit in. I was surprised to discover that even "whole milk" is separated and re-mixed to a carefully calibrated fat percentage.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I really like that chart.