What is real fresh milk?

Fresh milk refers to the milk separated from cows within 24 hours, otherwise it cannot be called "fresh" milk.

The state has explicit provisions on "fresh milk" in the dairy industry, and dairy enterprises cannot mention the word "fresh" in their products. There are two kinds of liquid milk: normal temperature milk and low temperature fresh milk.

People often say that fresh milk is actually pasteurized low-temperature fresh milk, which is pasteurized milk. Drinking fresh milk can supplement protein, fat and calcium needed by human body.

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Because fresh milk is sterilized at low temperature, it tastes richer than normal temperature milk, which is also an important reason why people choose to drink fresh milk.

Compared with fresh milk, it is normal temperature milk made by high temperature sterilization technology. Many people think that normal temperature milk after ultra-high temperature sterilization will lose a lot of nutrients, but it is not.

The main purpose of drinking milk is to supplement protein, calcium and other vitamins. There are many nutrients in milk, but four of them are the most important, namely lysine (an amino acid), calcium, vitamin B2 (riboflavin) and vitamin B 12. Although some ingredients lost their activity during ultra-high temperature sterilization, they did not reduce the nutrition in milk.

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