Whole milk: No fat removed. Has a rich taste. Contains 3.5 percent to 4 percent milk fat and about 150 calories a cup.
Reduced-fat milk: contains at most 2 percent milk fat and about 120 calories a cup.
Low-fat milk: contains 1 percent milk fat and about 100 calories a cup.
Fat-free milk, or skim milk: contains no more than 0.2% milk fat and has about 90 calories a cup.
Organic milk: Produced by dairy farmers that use only organic fertilizers and organic pesticides and whose cows are not given supplemental hormones or antibiotics.
Pasteurized milk: Pasteurization, or subjecting milk to a short burst of heat followed by rapid cooling, has been standard protocol since the 1920s in this country to destroy harmful microorganisms and prolong shelf life.
Homogenized: Most milk you buy from the store is homogenized, meaning the fat molecules have been broken up, reduced in size to droplets too small to rise to the surface in a cream layer, and uniformly blended.
Cream line: Not homogenized.
Raw milk: Milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized.
Lactose-free milk: For individuals who are unable to break down lactose, the natural sugar in milk, the lactase enzyme is added to break down lactose into simpler, more digestable sugars.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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