Take home message Traditional kefir based on grains (SCOBY) has a different composition depending on whether it is made from cow’s milk or goat’s milk. Results are based on highly pasteurised whole milk. A Turkish-trained taste panel prefers kefir made …
Take home message How to find out, what people ate since the Stone Age? When did milk become part of their diet and to what extent? How fast did milk consumption develop across Europe? There are several methods to gain …
… and more drastically the higher you heat it. What are the consequences? Take home message For food safety reasons, raw milk is heated before cosumption: pasteurised or sterilised. Although we have long been led to believe, that heating ‘hardly …
Take home message A mummy about 3,500 years old from the Xiahoe cemetery in China. The red arrows point to the kefir grains lying around the neck like a chain (taken from Liu et al., 2024) Lactose conversion SCOBY we …
Take home message The first half of the 20th century saw a great interest in the significance of vitamins for health. Rickets played a role in dark industrial cities like London, and young children developed bone deformities due to lack of vitamin …
Take home message Six months diet of milk or Coca-Cola? A Danish study (Maersk et al., 2012) looked, how two types of Coke (regular Coca-Cola and Diet Coke) had effects on weight development and physiological and body parameters around Metabolic …
Take home message Milk enzymes change differently when heated. Graphically it can be made clear that each enzyme has its own time and temperature relationship. This makes it clear which enzymes are more and less sensitive to heating. Denaturation and …
