Milk - oil-in-water emulsion with all essential
minerals
Milk and honey are the only diets whose sole function
in nature is food. As all dairy products contain milk,
the main focus in this text will be on milk. The role
of milk is to provide nourishment for baby animals and
humans as well. Whole milk from cow supplies 66 kcal
of energy per 100 grams. Milk is a very complex food
with over 100000 molecular components. Therefore only
an approximate composition of milk is usually given.
100 g of milk for example consists of:
- 88.0 g water
- 3.2 g proteins: casein (most abundant) and some
whey proteins
- 3.4 g fat (mainly saturated fatty acids)
- 4.7 g lactose
- 0.72 g minerals (calcium, phosphate, magnesium,
sodium, iodine, …)
- Small amounts of acids (lactate, citrate, acetate,
formate and oxalate)
- Small amounts of enzymes (lipase, catalyse, phosphatase
and peroxidase)
- Small volumes of gasses as nitrogen and oxygen
- Some vitamins (A, C, D and others)
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