Dairy products in Finnish

Here's a post about Finnish dairy products. I've divided them into three categories whether they are liquidy, a bit thicker, or cheese.  You can check out more vocabulary and product pictures for example here: https://www.valio.fi/tuotteet/.

Nestemäisiä - Liquidy

• maito - milk
• rasvaton - fat free (light blue carton)
• kevyt  - light (1,5, % fat, blue carton)
• täysmaito - 'full' milk (3,5 % fat, red carton)
• piimä - sour milk, butter milk
• kerma - cream (Kuohukerma for everything, vispikerma for whipping and piping cakes.)
• ruokakerma - cooking cream, literally food cream

Paksumpi koostumus - A bit thicker consistency

• jogurtti - yoghurt
• viili - cultured milk product, slimy consistency. Try for a breakfast!
• kermaviili - a creamy viili, but not slimy. Often used when making dips.
• smetana - sour cream that has 42 % fat. (Read an article about different sour creams.)
• (maito)rahka - quark or curd, rich in protein. Rahka can also be flavoured. 
• ranskankerma, crème fraîche - sour cream
• jäätelö - ice cream

Juustoja - Cheeses

• juusto - cheese
• raejuusto - cottage cheese (A fun fact: rae is a hail. Mökki is a cottage.)
• tuorejuusto - cream cheese, literally fresh cheese. Notice that kermajuusto is cheese made out of cream.
• sulatejuusto - spreadable cheese that is slimier than tuorejuusto
• kotijuusto, leipäjuusto - squeeky cheese (Koti is home and leipä is bread.)
• homejuusto - cheese that is produced with cultures of mold, home
• sinihomejuusto - blue cheese
• juustoraaste - grated cheese

Kevytmaito, rasvaton maito, kerma,
tuorejuusto, juustoraaste, raejuusto ja voi.

Lue ja katso lisää: 

• A video about viili (in English)
• How to make kermavaahto, whipped cream (suomeksi)
• A Finnish man eating Irish cream and coffee flavoured rahka (suomeksi)
• A piimä add from 1993. (What we learn: Piimä is better than having a cheating fiancé.)
• Different types of cheeses (suomeksi)
• Containers in Finnish (A blog post by me.)
• Finnish words that mean something in other languages (A blog post by me.)

About the author of Random Finnish Lesson: 

My name is Hanna Männikkölahti. I am a professional Finnish teacher who gives private online lessons and simplifies books into easy Finnish. Follow this blog, if you want to be the first one to know when I post something new.  If you want to subscribe to my newsletter, you can do it here.