help dairy producersconsumers may have more palatable low-fat products and milk producers a solution to an industry-wide problem through use of a unique strain of lactic acid bacteria according to Ashraf Hassan
This unique polysaccharide will also address a longstanding problem in the dairy industry--the formation of biofilm on milk processing equipment Hassan noted.
Milk bacteria attach to contact surfaces and form colonies that can resist traditional cleaning methods. The bacteria Hassan identified interfere with the formation of these biofilms possibly mitigating this industrywide problem.
Research associate Bethany Yon in a study recently published in the Journal of School Health in fact has shown that it's worked with flavored milk.
When the dairy industry in advance of impending regulations started to reformulate flavored milk traditionally high in both fat
Yon's work using shipment data as a proxy for consumption has shown that after some small blips milk consumption has stayed consistent.
That milk as Johnson has known since her earliest days as a researcher is critical. As people first became concerned about childhood obesity Johnson started looking at beverage consumption
and milk consumption going down. We were one of the first to sound this alarm she says showing that
when kids don't have milk at lunch they don't come close to meeting their dietary needs
--and the beverages displacing milk add empty calories. Today with 101-peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals 12 book chapters
#Protective milk shot: How mothers milk protects piglets from parasite infectionsantibodies against C. suis are transferred via the sow's very first milk to the piglets immediately after birth.
This was discovered by veterinarian and parasitologist Lukas Schwarz and his colleagues in 2013. These findings prompted the researchers at the Institute for Parasitology to look for a way to increase the level of these antibodies in sows.
The ultimate goal was to provide the piglets with as much antibodies as possible via their mother's milk during the first few days of life.
High concentrations of antibodies against the parasites are passed on to the piglets in the first few hours of life through their mother's milk where they enter the blood stream
The higher the concentration of antibodies in the sow's milk the better protected her offspring are.
Protective milk as the basis for a vaccineresearchers found particularly high concentrations of Iga in the very first milk known as colostrum a highly nutritious milk all mammals ingest during the first days of life.
This form of milk vaccination might serve as a basis for developing an immunisation strategy to prevent swine coccidiosis.
and cows--that could produce meat milk or other foods rich in this essential fatty acid says Kang an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school.
and Universitã de Franche-Comtã have reviewed the benefits of traditional raw-milk cheeses. They showed that traditional cheeses have unrivalled advantages in terms of both their diversity and their gustatory richness but also regarding their protection against pathogenic agents.
they result from the use of raw milk combined with the specific techniques used to manufacture traditional cheeses.
From the production of milk to the ripening of cheeses in different environments a wide range of microorganisms have an opportunity to develop.
Indeed raw milk already contains nearly 300 species of bacteria and 70 species of yeasts which are subsequently found to differing degrees in the cheeses.
Microorganisms native to raw milk whose metabolic potentials differ from those of commercial strains may enable the more intense and complex development of aromatic compounds.
Limited health risksproducers of raw milk cheeses need to manage their associated health risks. The research team showed that the microbial combinations present in traditional cheeses were able to to protect them--both in the paste and on the surface--from dangerous pathogens notably Listeria monocytogenes.
and ripen certain raw milk cheeses also appeared to be protected by a complex microbial biofilm limiting contamination by redoubtable pathogens such as Salmonella Listeria monocytogenes Escherichia coli o157/H7 and Staphylococcus aureus.
Between traditional and industrial cheesestraditional raw milk cheeses have undeniable advantages but the effects of their consumption on human health are still unknown.
Nevertheless studies performed on raw milk have demonstrated that its consumption can protect against allergies asthma hay fever and more generally atopic sensitisation.
Industrial manufacturers seek to diversify their products by adding selected strains to milk from which the native microflora have been removed.
Raw milk AOP3 cheeses are currently the best traditional cheeses available. They have all the characteristics generally used to describe traditional food products:
Raw milk AOP cheeses frequently come from mountainous areas and are produced mainly in small processing units.
The name traditional cheese can also extend to cheeses produced using milk whose native microbiota has been eliminated by different treatments applied to the milk
if they are produced on a farm or in small units if they are inoculated with a variety of acidifying yeasts
#Factors leading to diabetes may contribute to milk supply problems for new mothersnew studies provide fresh evidence that the same factors that lead to diabetes contribute to low milk supply in some new mothers.
In a study to be presented May 5 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical center researchers discovered that problems with mothers'insulin metabolism may affect their milk production.
The study found that women diagnosed with low milk supply were 2. 5 times more likely to have experienced gestational diabetes compared to women seen at the clinic solely
We need to better understand how we can identify mothers at risk for low milk supply
and especially elevated fasting plasma glucose in the pre-diabetic range were all predictors of insufficient milk supply in women attempting to exclusively breastfeed.
The single most important factor in building a strong milk supply is frequent and thorough breastfeeding beginning at birth she says.
whether metformin by improving insulin action in the mammary gland will boost milk production in pre-diabetic mothers diagnosed with low milk supply.
#Summer grazing enables high milk yield of dairy cowspart-time grazing is a good alternative to full-time silage diet of dairy cows.
Grazing is also a visible part of ethical milk production. When planned properly the milk yields of rotationally-grazed dairy cows remain as high at pasture as in indoor feeding.
Auvo Sairanen M. Sc. Agriculture & Forestry) Senior Researcher at the MTT Agrifood Research Finland detected in his doctoral dissertation study that the principles of feeding planning normally used for silage feeding also apply to grazing.
Dietary experiments provide information of forage digestibilitythe objective of the doctoral dissertation was to seek dietary factors that limit the milk yield of grazing cows.
In milk yield experiments the yield responses to concentrate supplementation were defined facilitating economic comparison between grazing
Judging by changes in the milk production and live weight of cows 20 kg of dry matter per day per hectare at pasture is not enough for per cow
The USDA recommends children age 4-8 get 1000 milligrams of calcium per day the equivalent of about 3. 5 8-ounce glasses of milk or 4. 5 ounces of cheese.
Twenty percent of participating children consumed no milk in their diet whatsoever and 55 percent consumed less than one serving of milk per day.
Dairy-free milks including soy rice and almond ranked fifth and coconut water ranked eighth among the popular nonalcoholic beverage trends in restaurants for 2014.
Students take 10%less milk waste 29%more and may even stop eating school meals says Andrew Hanks Phd.
and replaced with skim milk. While this policy eliminated the added sugar in chocolate milk there were unexpected nutritional and economic backlashes.
The new Cornell Food and Brand Lab study by Andrew Hanks David Just and Brian Wansink found that eliminating chocolate milk from the elementary schools decreased total milk sales by 10%indicating that many
Even though more students were taking white milk they wasted 29%more than before. Nutritionally after the milk substitution students on average consumed less sugar
and fewer calories but also consumed less protein and calcium. Additionally the ban may have been a factor in a 7%decrease in District's Lunch Program participation.
Removing flavored milk from cafeterias decreases added sugar yet the economic and nutritional costs warrant reconsidering a less restrictive policy.
-I wouldn't recommend banning flavored milk unless you have a comprehensive plan in place to compensate for the lost nutrients
when kids stop drinking milk altogether. In conclusion co-author and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab Brian Wansink recommends There are other ways to encourage kids to select white milk without banning the chocolate.
Make white milk appear more convenient and more normal to select. Two quick and easy solutions are:
Put the white milk in the front of the cooler and make sure that at least 1/3 to 1/2 of all the milk is white.
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and have a greater protein efficiency rate than those from cow's milk or soya so they could be used to feed humans
#Corralling milk microbes that survive pasteurizationcorralling desperados with names like bacillus and paenibacillus will require ingenuity and an arsenal of weapons.
These outlaws aren't rustling cattle--they're making milk sour and cheese soft and crumbly.
and form colonies on the contact surfaces inside the milk-processing equipment according to Anand. As the colony expands the layers form a biofilm that feeds
Milk products containing high microbe counts have flavor texture and spoilage problems Anand explains. In addition some spore formers produce harmful toxins.
Milk cheese milk powder and environmental samples were collected from 10 dairies in eastern South dakota and three processing plants outside the state.
South dakota's dairy industry produces 1. 8 billion pounds of milk and 232 million pounds of cheese producing a total economic impact of $1. 28 billion a year.
Seven plants across the state process milk with another set to begin operation in Brookings this year.
which form on joints plate heat exchangers and filtration membranes within the milk processing equipment. Each organism gathered from the dairy facilities is being isolated
which simulate the continuous flow of milk or whey. This is closer to the real system Anand says though the bioreactors are pressurized not like the automatic processing system.
Damaging equipmentwhen spore formers persist in an environment they can also do irreversible damage to the stainless steel contact surfaces within the milk-processing equipment Anand explains.
#Drink milk? Women who do may delay knee osteoarthritisnew research reports that women who frequently consume fat-free
or low-fat milk may delay the progression of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Results published in the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) journal Arthritis Care
Milk consumption plays an important role in bone health explains lead author Bing Lu M d. Dr. P. H. from Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston Mass.
Subjects included 888 men and 1260 women who had follow-up at 12 24 36 and 48 months As the intake of milk increased from none to less than 3 4-6
No association between milk consumption and joint space width decrease was reported in men. Our findings indicate that women who frequently drink milk may reduce the progression of OA concludes Dr. Lu.
Further study of milk intake and delay in OA progression are needed. In a related editorial also published in Arthritis Care & Research Shivani Sahni Ph d. and Robert Mclean D. Sc.
M p h. from Harvard-affiliated Hebrew Seniorlife Institute for Aging Research agree With the aging population
or low-fat milk consumption may slow the progression of OA among women who are burdened particularly by OA of the knee
In 2010 Mcdonald's and Burger king began to advertise apples and milk in kids meals. Sargent and his colleagues studied fast food television ads aimed at children from July 2010 through June 2011.
In 2013 an estimated 65000 women were diagnosed with carcinoma in situ a noninvasive breast cancer that affects the milk ducts and lobules of the breast according to the American Cancer Society.
He and doctoral student Kaushalkumar Dave are developing a new method to deliver cancer-fighting drugs directly to the milk ducts where more than 95 percent of breast cancer originates.
Delivering drugs through milk ductsanti-cancer drugs such as tamoxifen are administered normally through an oral tablet so the medication must travel through the bloodstream before reaching the breast tissue explains Perumal.
The drug will then be absorbed through openings in the nipples directly into the milk ducts.
because they can make cows infertile lower milk production and because those maladies are linked often to bacteria he said.
but can contaminate beef unpasteurized milk soft cheeses made from raw milk and raw fruits and vegetables that haven't been washed properly The most recent outbreak of meat-traced E coli was in 2010 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This pathogen can be present in raw milk and soft cheeses smoked fish raw meat and ready-to-eat products.
When an outbreak occurs though the disease has among the highest mortality rate of all food-borne illnesses explains lead author Kathrin Rychli from the Institute for Milk Hygiene Milk Technology and Food Science at the University of Veterinary medicine Vienna.
Austria-wide the Institute for Milk Hygiene Milk Technology and Food Science at the University of Veterinary medicine Vienna offers effective Listeria monitoring and a range of molecular and microbiological examination methods for the food industry.
Therefore experts recommend pregnant women to avoid raw milk raw meat and raw fish products. Story Source:
whether a carton of milk has turned sour or a can of green beans has spoiled without opening the containers according to researchers.
and tested the tags using E coli (food-spoiling bacteria that cause gastrointestinal problems) in milk as a reference model.
We successfully synchronized at multiple temperatures the chemical evolution process in the smart tag with microbial growth processes in the milk according to Zhang.
#Africans ability to digest milk linked to spread of cattle raisingbabies are born with the ability to digest lactose the sugar found in milk
and offers support to the idea that the ability to digest milk was a powerful selective force in a variety of African populations
which raised cattle and consumed the animals'fresh milk. The research was led by Alessia Ranciaro a postdoctoral fellow in Penn's Department of Genetics in the Perelman School of medicine
and people with northern European ancestry as well as populations from Africa the Arabian peninsula and Central asia with a tradition of fresh milk production and consumption continue to express the lactase enzyme into adulthood.
But these variants didn't completely account for the reason why some Africans were able to digest milk Ranciaro said.
It requires participants to fast overnight have measured their blood sugar then drink a sweet beverage containing the equivalent lactose of one to two liters of cow's milk
Some groups that appeared to be able to digest milk lacked any genetic sign of this ability.
Another possibility is that commensal bacteria in the gut could offer humans a helping hand in digesting milk.
#Claim that raw milk reduces lactose intolerance doesnt pass smell test, study findssome sour news for lactose-intolerant people who hoped that raw milk might prove easier to stomach than pasteurized milk:
A pilot study from the Stanford university School of medicine shows little difference in digestibility between the two.
and deflate some of the claims surrounding raw or unpasteurized milk. It's not that there was a trend toward a benefit from raw milk
and our study wasn't big enough to capture it; it's that there was no hint of any benefit said nutrition expert Christopher Gardner Phd professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research center
Although relatively few people drink raw milk--it's thought to comprise less than 1 percent of milk consumed nationwide--Gardner said he believes in making sure that the claims regarding foods
which is the enzyme that breaks down lactose the sugar in milk and milk products.
In recent years proponents of raw milk have cited examples of lactose-intolerant people who were able to drink raw milk without consequences.
Some raw-milk producers claim that because the product isn't pasteurized it contains good bacteria that can increase lactose absorption.
me because regardless of the bacteria raw milk and pasteurized milk have the same amount of lactose in them Gardner said.
The trial had a crossover design meaning the participants each consumed three different types of milk during the course of the study:
pasteurized milk raw milk and soy milk which doesn't have served lactose and as a control. The crossover design is really compelling
because it means each participant can evaluate their symptoms in the same way as they drink the different kinds of milk Gardner said.
which to consume the different milks which were provided in unlabeled containers. Additionally small amounts of sugar-free vanilla syrup were added to all three milks to make it more difficult for the participants to know which one they were drinking.
For eight days the participants consumed one type of milk with the quantities increasing between days two (4 ounces of milk) and seven (24 ounces.
On the first and eighth days they consumed 16 ounces of milk and underwent breath tests days to gauge the amount of hydrogen they were exhaling.
or a smaller portion of the milk on any of the days if their symptoms became too severe.
which they consumed no milk products the participants repeated the process for the two other types of milk.
When the team compared the hydrogen breath test results they found little difference between the consumption of raw milk and pasteurized milk.
In fact the hydrogen levels on the first day of the eight-day period were higher for raw milk than for pasteurized milk
The participants also didn't notice a difference in the severity of their symptoms when drinking raw versus pasteurized milk.
when they consumed the largest amount--24 ounces in one sitting--of either raw or pasteurized milk.
when drinking the most of both types of dairy milk. In the final tally Gardner noted that 13 of the 16 participants were willing to drink the full 24 ounces of both raw milk and pasteurized milk.
I was stunned that so many of them tolerated that much milk because these were people who are clinically lactose-intolerant he said.
She remembers drinking raw milk as a young girl at her grandmother's farm but said that in her 30s she began developing discomfort
when she drank milk. By participating in this trial I realized that milk is everywhere--it's in salad dressing it's even in bread Gabashvili said.
She used to purchase lactose-free products but has stopped since because she found she liked soy milk after drinking it during the trial
and she also discovered she could tolerate small amounts of pasteurized milk. Although the number of participants was said small Gardner the pilot study is a solid first step
He said future studies should note that the participants were willing to tolerate the discomforts of drinking milk for eight days which he believed was long enough to determine
whether their digestive systems adapted to the additional bacteria in raw milk. We brought in focus groups of lactose-intolerant people to get feedback before we started the study
and unsaturated fats from milk products and spreads were some of the healthy components whereas sausages eggs sweets sugary drinks salty fish and saturated fats from milk products and spreads were indicated as unhealthy.
Previous studies on diet and dementia have focused mainly on the impact of single dietary components.
and sub-optimal housing the cows produce much less milk and the costs of feed and husbandry far exceed those of native breeds.
Also with some supplements animals can produce more milk and meat for proportionally less greenhouse gas.
Raising animals for milk and meat is considered often at odds with the challenge of feeding a growing human population
Turn your old milk jugs into 3-D printer filamentmaking your own stuff with a 3d printer is vastly cheaper than
Yet you can drive the cost down even more by making your own filament from old milk jugs.
A study led by Joshua Pearce of Michigan Technological University has shown that making your own plastic 3d printer filament from milk jugs uses less energy--often a lot less than recycling milk jugs conventionally.
Pearce's team did a life-cycle analysis on a run-of-the-mill milk jug made from HDPE plastic.
which collects and processes plastic locally turning milk jugs into filament at home uses about 3 percent less energy.
And recycling your own milk jugs uses 90 percent less energy than making virgin plastic from petroleum.
(salty and sweet snacks white bread desserts processed meat products) and traditional (potatoes fish gravy cooked vegetables low fat milk.
or milk allergies but my daughter is allergic to wheat cashews eggs and almonds. What can you do about that?'
and had been shown in a previous Stanford study to speed the success of oral immunotherapy for children with milk allergies.
Griffin and colleagues found regional self-reliance to be highest for animal-based products particularly milk and eggs.
The region produces about as much fluid milk as it consumes and about 70%of the amount of eggs consumed.
We recommend that farmers use some form of social housing for their calves during the milk feeding period.
In the second test the calves were taught to complete a simple task approaching a black bottle full of milk
and produce more milk when they eat energy-rich diets that include grain supplements or improved forages.
This means that more livestock can be raised on less land and with fewer emissions per pound of meat or milk produced.
and the ingredients that make chocolate--whether milk dark or white--a memorable treat. Cocoa Seeds Not Beanscocoa comes from the cocoa plant grown in the remote areas of West Africa Asia and South america.
and milk to create chocolate bars and candy. Dark chocolate is at least 35 percent cocoa liquor;
or checking the expiration date on a gallon of milk. Each consumer has a set of values
and safety were the most important values consumers placed on buying popular livestock products--milk ground beef beef steak and chicken breast.
The popular products they chose to examine included milk ground beef beef steak and chicken breast. The 11 food values they chose to examine included freshness health hormone-free/antibiotic-free animal welfare taste price safety convenience nutrition origin and environmental impact.
and it was either first or second most important for milk ground beef beef steak and chicken breast.
The ability to milk animals was a revolution in food production as for the first time humans did not have to kill animals to obtain food.
Whilst we like to think of ourselves as a nation of fish eaters with fish and chips as our national dish it seems that early British farmers preferred beef mutton and milk.
#Cows milk protein measurement standard expanded for greater consumer protection, harmonized tradeidf and ISO have joined forces to expand the scope of an international standard used worldwide in the dairy industry to measure the protein content of cow's milk.
The Kjeldahl method now encompasses milk from other species as well as internationally traded dairy products covered by Codex standards.
The revised Standard reconfirms the crucial role of the Kjeldahl method in trade harmonization and enhances consumer protection safeguards.
Pivotal role in tradethe Kjeldahl method plays a pivotal role in national and international trade for example in calculating fair milk payments for dairy farmers controlling manufacturing processes
This standard is about the determination of one of the major components in milk and many milk products in fact the component that accounts for over 50%of the market value of milk Dr. Harrie van den Bijgaart Chair of the ISO
Technical Committee on Milk and Milk Products explained. This combined with the fact that international collaborative studies of the method had been conducted for liquid bovine whole milk only thus far illustrated the need to validate the method for products other than bovine whole milk.
IDF and ISO experts have modified now successfully and scientifically validated the method so that it applies to a wide range of dairy products.
In addition to liquid bovine whole milk the method can now be applied to bovine milk with reduced fat content goat whole milk sheep whole milk cheese dried milk
and dried milk products including milk-based infant formulae milk protein concentrate whey protein concentrate casein and caseinate Dr. Jaap Evers Chair of the IDF Methods Standards Steering Group explained.
The validation of this method for more products will also provide better guarantees to consumers that the labelled content of milk products was determined with globally standardized methodology Dr. van den Bijgaart added.
Greater harmonization around the worldthe global impact of IDF/ISO analytical methods is illustrated by the fact that many of these methods are referenced in national and regional regulations
and that over 60 have been adopted by the Codex alimentarius. These methods have become the international references for the testing of milk and dairy products.
Given the increasing global demand for milk and milk products standardization is ever more important to ensure food safety food quality and fairness in international trade.
and milk researchers say. Methanogens are additionally a factor in human nutrition. The organisms live in the large intestine where they enhance the breakdown of food.
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