On Food and Cooking

contribute to heart disease. Happily the last few years have brought a correction in the view ...

In their roots, both milk and dairy recall the physical effort it once took to obtain milk and ...

humans on the planet can’t digest the milk sugar called lactose, that the best route to calcium balance may ...

unsaturated fatty acids of grass and grain into saturated fatty acids, the milk fat of ruminant animals is th ...

MilkFatProteinLactose Human4.01.16.8 Cow3.73.44.8 Holstein/Friesian3.63.44.9 Brown Swiss4.03.64.7 Jersey5.23.94.9 Zebu4.73.34. ...

Holstein/Friesian0.7 87 Brown Swiss0.7 87 Jersey0.7 85 Zebu0.7 86 Buffalo0.8 83 Yak0.8 82 Goat0.8 88 Sheep1.0 80 Camel0.8 87 R ...

cow’s milk seemed a good substitute for mother’s milk: more than half of all six- month-olds in the ...

whose symptoms may range from mild discomfort to intestinal damage to shock. Most children eventually grow ...

age and continuing through adulthood. The logic of this trend is obvious: it’s a waste of its resources for ...

genetic change that allowed them to produce lactase throughout life, probably because milk was an exceptionally ...

lactose-digesting enzyme itself in liquid form (it’s manufactured from a fungus, Aspergillus), and add a fe ...

Many women in industrialized countries lose so much bone mass after menopause that they’re at high ...

healthy bones. Other countries, including China and Japan, suffer much lower fracture rates than the United S ...

other as yet unidentified substances. There appear to be factors in tea and in onions and parsley that ...

bone. The best insurance against osteoporosis appears to be frequent exercise of the bones that we want ...

drugs are also peptides, and a number of casein peptides do affect the body in hormone-like ways. One re ...

from the gland. The optimum sequence for milk production is to breed the cow again 90 days after it calve ...

ceased and the milk is saleable, the calf is put on a diet of reconstituted and soy milks, and the cow is ...

some floating free, some embedded in the membranes of the fat globules. Pasteurization (p. 22) greatly ...

milk, including proteins and globules of milk fat, and release them into many thousands of small com ...