Milk has long been considered the staple food after bread. Recently, however, doctors have begun to doubt whether this product is so useful. Those who love it need to arm themselves with useful information to be able to choose safe milk.
Milk is a valuable source of calcium. Therefore, it is mainly recommended for children and pregnant women to drink it.
Homemade, steam
If you are a resident of a village, then the question whether cow (goat) milk is healthy or not, most likely, will not even cross your mind. Indeed, these animals provide a natural dairy product that is pleasant to drink for both adults and children.
But as a city dweller, you are deprived of the opportunity to drink fresh milk. The fact is that it must be cooled within the first 2 hours after milk production, otherwise it will lose the lion's share of its benefits. In addition, such milk contains much more bacteria, including harmful ones, than in store milk. And when boiling, all the benefits are killed.
In order to drink raw fresh milk, you need to milk a cow or goat with your own hands. But you can still buy a chilled home product. But only if you are sure of the conscientiousness of the milkmaid.
When buying cow or goat milk, you need to make sure not only the health of the animal, but also the cleanliness of the container. And only a very familiar thrush can provide this.
Store milk
It is better not to risk buying fresh milk, but to purchase a product that has been pasteurized. This milk is sold in soft plastic bags. The product is pasteurized for 20 seconds at a temperature of 65-75 ° C.
As a result of such treatment, pathogenic microflora - Escherichia coli, cholera and typhoid pathogens, etc. - die, but their disputes remain. Therefore, such milk has a shelf life of only a few days. This is the healthiest milk from store products.
UHT milk is most often sold in hard briquettes. This product is heat treated at a high temperature (+ 125-140 ° C) for 2-4 seconds. This method allows you to preserve the lion's share of nutrients and significantly increase the shelf life of the product - up to 1.5-2 months.
Probably the safest milk is sterilized. It is the most useless. The product is boiled for half an hour at a temperature of 115-120 ° C. Naturally, after such treatment, both harmful and beneficial bacteria die. On the shelves, sterilized milk can be seen in glass bottles.
To get the most out of milk, you must drink it separately from other foods. In addition, it is recommended to preheat it to room temperature.
