kefir
AmericanEtymology
Origin of kefir
First recorded in 1880–85; from Russian kefír, apparently from a Caucasian language; compare Ossetic kʾæpy, kʾæpu “kefir,” Mingrelian kipuri “milk curdled in an animal skin”
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The researchers found no association between dementia and consumption of low-fat cheese, low-fat cream, high- or low-fat milk, butter or fermented milk, which includes yogurt, kefir and buttermilk.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025
I take one thing at the farmers market very seriously, which is the kefir yogurt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
State regulators placed the farm under quarantine, suspending any new distribution of its raw milk, cream, kefir, butter and cheese products produced on or after November 27.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024
Shann soon had a herd of goats and a vast surplus of milk, so in 2012 founded Chuckling Goat with her husband to sell the kefir produced from the goat's milk.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
In koumiss and kefir the curd is very finely divided and will remain in suspension for a long time as with butter milk.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings
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