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Condensed milk

Condensed milk is concentrated milk sold in cans. Cooks use it in baking, to sweeten or garnish dishes, and with coffee; it can also be simmered or steamed.

  • Vegetarian
  • Dairy
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Dairy & eggs
Made from
Milk
Part used
Milk
Cooked most in
Asia, Europe
Top country
Indonesia
Condensed milk, whole

Photo: Krassotkin · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use condensed milk

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Boil simmer
  • Garnish
  • Steam
  • Sweeten

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing condensed milk

Sold as
Canned

Nutrition

What 100 g of condensed milk holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.
Nutrition per 100 g of condensed milk
of which saturated4.8 g
of which sugars54 g
Canned

Protein 11%Fat 12%Carbohydrate 77%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of condensed milk, canned
Energy321 kcal · 1,342 kJ
Protein7.9 g
Fat8.7 g
of which saturated5.5 g
Carbohydrate54 g
of which sugars54 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium127 mg
Cholesterol34 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of condensed milk, canned: minerals and vitamins
Potassium371 mg
Calcium284 mg
Iron0.19 mg
Magnesium26 mg
Zinc0.94 mg
Vitamin C2.6 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)74 µg
Folate11 µg
Vitamin B120.44 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 2758990, 171275), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where condensed milk is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use condensed milk. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list condensed milk among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1820 · France

    Nicolas Appert condensed milk in France.

  2. 1835

    William Newton added sugar to help preserve condensed milk.

  3. 1866 · Switzerland

    George Ham Page and Charles Page opened Europe's first condensed milk factory in Cham.

On the table

Dishes made with condensed milk

5 of the 6 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Es Pisang Ijo

    Indonesia

  • Birchermuesli

    Switzerland

  • Sari pengantin

    Indonesia

  • Lontar cake

    Indonesia

  • Es Poteng

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include condensed milk.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: condensed milk in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: milkChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: dairyChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
milk (concentrated)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What condensed milk is called

Names in 59 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    leche condensada

  • French

    lait concentré sucré · lait condensé

  • Italian

    latte condensato

  • Portuguese

    leite condensado

  • German

    Kondensmilch · Büchsenmilch · Dosenmilch · eingedickte Milch

  • Dutch

    gecondenseerde melk

  • Turkish

    kondanse süt · yoğunlaştırılmış süt

  • Russian

    сгущённое молоко · сгущёнка

  • Polish

    mleko skondensowane · mleko zagęszczone

  • Arabic

    الحليب المكثف · حليب مكثف

  • Persian

    شیر تغلیظ‌شده

  • Hebrew

    חלב מרוכז

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  • Afrikaans

    kondensmelk

  • Albanian

    qumështi i kondensuar

  • Armenian

    խտացրած կաթ

  • Azerbaijani

    qatılaşdırılmış süd

  • Bangla

    ঘন দুধ

  • Basque

    esne kondentsatu

  • Belarusian

    згушчанае малако

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    згушчанае малако · згушчонка

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    leite condensado

  • Bulgarian

    кондензирано мляко

  • Cantonese

    煉奶

  • Catalan

    llet condensada

  • Chinese

    煉奶

  • Chuvash

    çăратнă сĕт

  • Crimean Tatar

    Сгущённое молоко

  • Czech

    kondenzované mléko

  • Danish

    kondenseret mælk

  • Esperanto

    kondensita lakto

  • Estonian

    kondenspiim

  • Filipino

    gatas na kondensada

  • Finnish

    kondensoitu maito

  • Galician

    leite condensado

  • Hungarian

    sűrített tej

  • Indonesian

    susu kental manis

  • Japanese

    練乳 · 煉乳

  • Javanese

    susu kondensasi

  • Kannada

    ಕಂಡೆನ್ಸ್‌ಡ್ ಮಿಲ್ಕ್

  • Kara-Kalpak

    qoyıwlandırılǵan sút

  • Kazakh

    қойытылған сүт

  • kge

    puwan kontol

  • Korean

    연유

  • Kyrgyz

    Коюлтулган сүт

  • Latvian

    iebiezinātais piens · iebiezināts piens

  • Lithuanian

    kondensuotas pienas

  • Luxembourgish

    Béchsemëllech

  • Malay

    susu pekat · susu pekat manis

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kondensert melk

  • Romanian

    lapte condensat

  • Slovak

    kondenzované mlieko

  • Slovenian

    kondenzirano mleko

  • Swedish

    kondenserad mjölk · kondensmjölk

  • Swiss High German

    Kondensmilch

  • Tajik

    ширасалӣ · ширъасалӣ · шири тағлизшуда

  • Tatar

    куертылган сөт

  • Thai

    นมข้นหวาน

  • Turkmen

    Goýaldylan süýty

  • Ukrainian

    згущене молоко

  • Uzbek

    quyultirilgan sut

  • Vietnamese

    sữa đặc

  • Welsh

    llaeth cyddwys · llaeth cyddwysedig

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q2830455

Photos

Photo: Krassotkin · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons