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Cream

Cream is a dairy product extracted from milk. Cooks use it in stew and pair it with coffee. It is also sold in cans.

  • 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
Europe, The Americas
Top country
France
Cream, prepared

Photo: Miia Ranta from Finland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cream

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Stew

Cooking with it

Use double cream in hot sauces to reduce the risk of splitting. Cream can form oily globules when added to coffee. Cream with more than 30% fat can be whisked into a soft solid.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing cream

Sold as
Canned

Nutrition

What 100 g of cream holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 5%Fat 86%Carbohydrate 9%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of cream
Energy343 kcal · 548 kJ
Protein2 g
Fat36 g
of which saturated20 g
Carbohydrate3.8 g
of which sugars4.1 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium21 mg
Cholesterol103 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of cream: minerals and vitamins
Potassium97 mg
Calcium61 mg
Magnesium6 mg
Zinc0.22 mg
Vitamin C0.9 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)97 µg
Folate3 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 171255, 2346386), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where cream is cooked

13 dishes in the catalogue use cream. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

On the table

Dishes made with cream

12 of the 13 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Crawfish Monica

    United States

  • Saffron pancake

    Sweden

  • Zenne pot

    Belgium

  • Petatou

    France

  • Ajmokac

  • Enfrijoladas

    Mexico

  • Tetrazzini

    United States

  • Tarte flambée

    Germany, France

  • Swedish mackerel soup

  • Goxua

  • Intxaursaltsa

  • Novomikhailovsk cutlets

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: cream 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 (extracted)
Made from it
butter, sour cream (fermented), whipped cream
Kinds
crème fraîche, whipped cream

Cooked together

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

What cream is called

Names in 134 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    crema de leche · nata

  • French

    crème

  • Italian

    panna · crema di latte

  • Portuguese

    nata · creme de leite

  • German

    Rahm · Obers · Sahne · Nidel

  • Dutch

    room · melkvet

  • Greek

    κρέμα γάλακτος

  • Turkish

    krema

  • Russian

    сливки

  • Polish

    śmietanka

  • Arabic

    قشدة · قشطة

  • Persian

    خامه

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  • acm

    قشطة

  • Afrikaans

    room

  • Albanian

    pana · ajkë · mazë

  • Aragonese

    pinta

  • Armenian

    սերուցք

  • Aromanian

    tearâ

  • Asturian

    crema de lleche

  • azb

    خاما

  • Azerbaijani

    qaymaq

  • Bangla

    ক্রিম

  • Bashkir

    ҡаймаҡ

  • Basque

    esne-gain likido · esne-gain

  • Bavarian

    Rahm

  • Belarusian

    вяршкі

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    вяршкі

  • Betawi

    Rum

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    nata · creme de leite

  • Breton

    dienn

  • Bulgarian

    сметана

  • Buriat

    сүсэгы

  • Burmese

    နို့ဆီ

  • Cantonese

    忌廉

  • Catalan

    nata

  • Central Kurdish

    خامە · کرێم

  • Chinese

    鮮奶油 · 鲜奶油 · 奶油 · 忌廉

  • Cornish

    dehen

  • Corsican

    crema

  • Croatian

    vrhnje

  • Czech

    smetana

  • Danish

    fløde

  • Egyptian Arabic

    اشطه

  • Esperanto

    kremo

  • Estonian

    koor · piimakoor

  • Faroese

    rómi

  • Fijian

    kirimu

  • Finnish

    kerma

  • Galician

    crema de leite

  • Georgian

    ნაღები

  • Hebrew

    שמנת

  • Hindi

    क्रीम

  • Hungarian

    tejszín

  • Icelandic

    rjómi

  • Ido

    kremo

  • Inari Sami

    lahcâ

  • Indonesian

    krim

  • Interlingua

    Crema

  • Irish

    uachtar

  • Japanese

    クリーム · 生クリーム

  • Javanese

    krim · krim (ombènan)

  • Kannada

    ಕೆನೆ

  • Kazakh

    кілегей

  • Korean

    크림 · 유크림 · 생크림

  • Kyrgyz

    каймак

  • Latgalian

    kriejums · kraiškys

  • Latin

    cramum

  • Latvian

    saldais krējums · krējums · salds krējums

  • Limburgish

    roum

  • Lithuanian

    grietinėlė

  • lld

    brama

  • Lombard

    panera

  • Low Saxon

    vlödde

  • Lower Sorbian

    zmjatana

  • Lule Sami

    gahpa

  • Luxembourgish

    Ram · Schmant

  • Malay

    krim

  • Malay (Arabic)

    کريم

  • Malayalam

    ക്രീം

  • Maltese

    krema

  • Manx

    key · eaghtyr y vainney

  • Māori

    kirīmi

  • Marathi

    साय

  • Mongolian

    цөцгий

  • Moroccan Arabic

    فرارة

  • Nepali

    तर

  • Northern Sami

    lákca · gahpa

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    fløte

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kremfløyte

  • nup

    Cream

  • Occitan

    crèma

  • Odia

    କ୍ରୀମ

  • Old English

    rēam

  • Oromo

    Qarruu

  • Papiamento

    krem · krèm · krema

  • Pennsylvania German

    Raahm

  • Punjabi

    ਮਲਾਈ

  • Quechua

    nata

  • Romanian

    smântână · smântână de lapte · cremă de lapte · cremă dulce

  • rsk

    Шметанка

  • Rusyn

    верхнина

  • Santali

    ᱛᱚᱣᱟ ᱪᱷᱟᱞᱮ

  • Scottish Gaelic

    bàrr a' bhainne

  • Serbian

    павлака

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    павлака

  • Serbian (Latin)

    skorup · kajmak · vrhnje

  • Shona

    ruwomba

  • Simplified Chinese

    奶油

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    奶油

  • Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)

    奶油

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    奶油

  • sje

    gahpa

  • Skolt Sami

    lahcc

  • Slovak

    smotana

  • Slovenian

    smetana

  • Somali

    labeen

  • Southern Sami

    gïhpe

  • Swahili

    samli

  • Swedish

    grädde

  • Tamil

    பாலாடை

  • Tatar

    сөтөсте

  • Telugu

    మీగడ

  • Thai

    ครีม

  • Tongan

    kilimi

  • Traditional Chinese

    鮮奶油 · 忌廉

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    忌廉

  • Traditional Chinese (Macao SAR China)

    忌廉

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    鮮奶油

  • Tswana

    lobebe

  • Tuvinian

    өреме

  • Udmurt

    йöлвыл

  • Ukrainian

    вершки

  • Upper Sorbian

    smjetana

  • Urdu

    ملائی

  • Uzbek

    qaymoq

  • Vietnamese

    kem

  • Volapük

    krem

  • Walloon

    crinme

  • Waray

    krema

  • Welsh

    hufen

  • Western Frisian

    rjemme

  • Western Panjabi

    ملائی

  • Wu Chinese

    奶油

  • Yakut

    сүөгэй

  • Yiddish

    שמאַנט

  • Zulu

    ulaza

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q13228

Photos

Photo: Miia Ranta from Finland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons