Drink that lovely, creamy milk.
- Milk is a white coloured liquid that is produced by mammals that have mammary glands.
- Milk is the main nutritional source for baby mammals.
- Mammals initially produce colostrum, a form of milk that contains some of the mother’s antibodies to help prevent illness and gives newborns an important boost of nutrients.
- In 2011, the world wide production of milk from dairy farms was approximately 730 million tonnes (850 million tons).
- India is the largest producer and consumer of milk, but the country doesn’t export or import it, while Australia and the United States are some of the biggest exporters of milk, and China and Russia are the biggest importers.
- More than 6 billion people in the world consume milk or dairy products.
- Humans often drink cattle, goat or sheep milk, and sometimes buffalo, camel, donkey, horse, reindeer, yak, moose and dolphin milk.
- Milk can be made into cream, butter, yoghurt, kefir, ice-cream and cheese.
- Cow’s milk is very high in calcium and a 250ml cup of full fat milk contains approximately 36% of an adult’s recommended daily dose of calcium.
- Proteins in cow’s milk can cause allergic reactions in some humans, and a significant portion of the population have difficulty digesting lactose (a type of sugar), which is called lactose intolerance.
Bibliography:
Milk 24 March 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk>
