Milk. Whether you love it or hate it, it is an
important drink full of nutrients that are essential for a healthy balanced
diet. Cow's milk contains 285 mg of calcium, which represents 22% to 29% of the
daily recommended intake of calcium for an adult. Milk is inexpensive to drink,
can be drunk hot or cold and can be used extensively in cooking or making
desserts.
Milk can be used in all different things such as,
tea, coffee, hot chocolate and cereal. It is an essential on most people’s
shopping lists each week as it can be used in a variety of different ways. It is
a main ingredient of food items such as cheese, eggs and of course milk. It can
be bought from a wide variety of shops, such as Wilkinsons, Iceland and even
B&M. The most popular type of processed milk is pasteurized. This is the
safest form of milk as it is heated up in order to kill all the harmful
bacteria. Following milk being pasteurized it is then standardized in order to
lower fat content levels and homogenized, which is to break down the fat
globules and spread them through the milk.
There is also many different types of milk such as
whole, semi skimmed, 1% fat and skimmed to name but a few. According to our
research we founded that people prefer to drink semi skimmed milk. Semi skimmed milk contains a meagre 1.7% fat.
It retains a rich creamy flavoured and this type of milk is suitable for all
apart from children under 2 years old. Semi skimmed is often recommended by
doctors for those who suffer from diabetes or certain types of
allergies.
Throughout the world, there are more than 6 billion
consumers of milk and milk products. . It was reported in 2007 that
with increased worldwide prosperity and the competition of bio-fuel
production, both the demand for and the price of milk had substantially
increased worldwide. Now farmers could
earn a minimum of 22p per litre of milk, which is below the break-even point for
many cattle farmers. According to the news paper ‘THE WEEK’ thousands of dairy
farmers from several EU countries descended on Brussels for demonstrations over
falling milk prices. Many people choose
to simply buy their milk from shops such as Asda or Tesco’s, but there is still
a large amount of people who buy their milk from milkmen who deliver to their
door. We spoke to the manager of Dairy Crest Depot in Saughall Massie to hear
his views on door to door sales.
Bone
growth is greatest in childhood and
teenage years when there are
growth spurts. As milk contains calcium, which helps make strong teeth and
bones, it is vital that it is included in children’s and adolescent’s diets.
That is why schools offer milk to students who buy school dinners.
In
almost all mammals, milk is fed to infants through breastfeeding, either
directly or by expressing the milk to be stored and consumed later. However some
mothers find it difficult to produce milk for their children, whether they are
ill or their baby needs more than they can provide. Fortunately, there is an
alternative. It is a use of human breast milk from other sources and this can be
provided from Milk banks all over the world, 17 of them being situated in the
UK.
Enjoying healthy food and drink is
beneficial for humans, however there many everyday food phobias, One of these
phobias being lacto phobia.
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