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Dairy Products. Milk, yogurt, butter, cream and sour cream are all bad choices for a compost pile. As these ingredients start to rot, the compost will emit an increasingly foul odor. Dairy products also attract pests like rodents and flies. Do not add bones, meat, animal fat, whole eggs or other animal waste in the compost pile.
Two acids commonly found in food scraps, lactic (from dairy) and acetic (a preservative), will depress the pH in a food scraps composting pile. If the pile is allowed to go anaerobic with a depressed pH, more VFAs will be formed, with consequent odor problems.