Fresh milk, extended-shelf-life (ESL) or long life (UHT) milk?

Physiological effects of milk

Milk and the milk products made of it are of vital importance, especially to growing organisms. The fat content of cow milk includes those fat types of low carbon atom numbers that contain growth factors, and this is why it is good for children to consume milk of high fat content (3.6/2.8%) as much as possible...

Fresh milk, extended-shelf-life (ESL) or long life (UHT) milk?

 

Freshly produced “raw” milk obviously differs from milks that underwent various heat treatments not only in its deliciousness, but it is also ahead of its heat-treated rivals in respect of its food value and dry matter content. However, if there is not any milk-cart in the immediate vicinity, we can make our choice among pasteurized milks of various shelf-lives.

By “fresh milk”, nowadays the public usually means pasteurized milk in plastic containers that can be kept for a few days in a refrigerator, and then excellent curd can still be made of it.
UHT milks represent a high proportion in today’s milk sale due to their long shelf life. The main steps of UHT milk production – known also as ultra-pasteurization – are the heat treatment at a temperature between 136 and 142°C for a few seconds and then the spore-free drawing-off. Though it is also named conserved milk, it does not contain any conservative, and its nutrient and protein content is not lower than that of the traditional pasteurized milk. UHT milk is a real “comfort product” of our days, since it keeps good for several weeks and can be stored at room temperature as well.

Milk against decalcification?

About one million people in Hungary are affected by decalcification, the metabolic disease of bones, which involves the continuous and gradual decrease of bone-tissues...

Fresh milk, extended-shelf-life (ESL) or long life (UHT) milk?

Freshly produced “raw” milk obviously differs from milks that underwent various heat treatments not only in its deliciousness, but it is also ahead of its heat-treated rivals in respect of its food value and dry matter content. However...

International Milk Day

The International Dairy Federation keeps the World Milk Day on the last Tuesday of May in every year since 1957...

 Milk allergy

Two frequent troubles may occur in connection with milk. One of them is milk protein allergy, or milk allergy for short, which is a congenital metabolic disease that occurs during infancy usually when the baby gets cow milk for the first time...

 Sensibility to milk sugar

In the case of sensibility to milk sugar, the human body is not able to break down the lactose contained in milk and milk products due to the lack of a certain enzyme...

 L-carnitine

L-carnitine is a natural substance to be found in the human organism and also in foods of animal or plant origin...

 The versatile whey drink

Whey contains proteins of high nutritive value and minerals, all of which exert beneficial action on our organism. Due to its composition of nutrients, daily consumption of whey is recommended...

 Why are the pre - and probiotics necessary for the organism?

Probiotics are “friendly” bacteria which exert a number of positive actions on our health. Prebiotics, nutrients for probiotic bacteria, are oligosaccharides built up of simple sugars...