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Yogurt vs Labneh - What's the difference?

yogurt | labneh |

As nouns the difference between yogurt and labneh

is that yogurt is a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring while labneh is yogurt that has been strained to filter or remove the whey, which thus has a consistency between that of yoghurt and cheese.

yogurt

English

(yogurt)

Alternative forms

* ** yoghurd ** yogourt * ** yaghourt ** yahourt ** yoghourt ** yogurd ** yoghurt ** yohourth ** yooghort ** yughard ** yughurt * ** yoghurt ** yogurt ** yogourt (now only Canadian)

Noun

  • A milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
  • Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt).
  • See also

    * curd * whey

    References

    Anagrams

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    labneh

    English

    (wikipedia labneh)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Yogurt that has been strained to filter or remove the whey, which thus has a consistency between that of yoghurt and cheese.
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    Synonyms

    * strained yoghurt * yoghurt cheese

    See also

    * quark