Naturally Skimed Milk
It’s a fact that cows don’t produce vanilla milk, or strawberries milk, even though every groceries store has them on the shelf. But how about naturally skimmed milk?
A group of researchers from New Zealand are already on the way to make cows produce naturally skimmed milk with the new discovered genes that enable cows to do that.
“The New Zealand approach could be used to breed cows that still produce full-fat milk but with only the good fats, which could swing things back in favor of full-fat milk.(…) In future if whole milk can be made to contain unsaturated fats – which are good for you – then it might mean that people change back to whole milk products.”
said Ed Komorowski, technical director at Dairy UK .
The milk from these cows is high in omega-3 fatty acids and makes butter that spreads as easily as margarine straight from the fridge.
Marge, the cow with the gene that enables her to produce milk with 1% fat was bought for $218 and now lives at a research site.
Her offspring also produces low-fat milk, showing that the genetic trait is dominant.
This milk could change entirely the dairy industry, because it would be poor in saturated fats and rich in polyunsaturates and monounsaturated fats.
Still, we will have to wait a little longer, because the first commercial herd of cows supplying natural low-fat milk and spreadable butter is expected for the market by 2011.
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RSS Trackback URL 17. June 2007 (12:00)Filed under: Nutrition, Steaming diets