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Make your own with whole milk and vinegar/lemon juice.
Edit: downvotes from scaredycats who think cheese grows on trees
that makes buttermilk
No, it makes acid-set cheese, of which ricotta is a type. Buttermilk is the liquid leftover after you make butter.
That’s basically the process for making paneer, plus draining and pressing.
Queso fresco, too. It's all the same cheese, just different levels of moisture!
You can sorta make cheese with just acid but yeah rennet or a rennet replacement is the way to go