Made from fermented milk, yoghurt has a great many uses. In western Europe yoghurt is perhaps most popular as a sweetened, fruity dessert or breakfast food. However, it can be consumed as a drink (such as the Indian lassi) or used in baking to provide moistness and flavour, or made into a kind of cheese (such as labneh). Yogurt is very digestible, even to people with lactose intolerance as the added bacteria converts the indigestible lactose into more accessible lactic acid.
Yoghurt can be made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats, even mares, camels and female yaks; each has its own flavours and cooking properties. Yoghurt is available with a wide range of fat contents, from full-fat with added cream to very low fat.