Milk is a white nutritious liquid produced by female mammals mammary gland. Milk is the main source of nutrition for infants before they can digest solid food. Dairy animals (usually cows) are also processed into various products such as butter, yogurt, ice cream, cheese, condensed milk, milk powder and others for human consumption.
Milk has many functions and benefits. For the productive age, milk helped their growth. Meanwhile, for the elderly, so that milk helps keep bones are not porous. Milk contains many vitamins and proteins. Therefore, everyone is encouraged to drink milk. Now a lot of milk that is packaged in a unique form. The purpose of this so that people interested in buying and drinking milk. There is also a form of fermented milk.
History Of Milk
In ancient times, the milk has been used as human food staple. Humans take milk from animals that have mammary glands, such as cows, horses and sheep. Cattle and sheep began to be domesticated since 8000 BC for their meat, fur and milk. In the Middle East, even fermented milk into cheese by the desert nomads there. Chance of milk began to enter the plains of Europe in centuries past 5000 BC Anatolia region. Meanwhile, the milk started to go to Britain in the Neolithic period.
The use of cheese and milk from the Middle East through Turkey began to be known by Europeans in the middle ages. Then, in the 15th century, sailors began to bring the dairy cow to be nurtured and bred in the plains of Europe to the consumption of milk. Cow's milk had just known by the Indonesian people through the colonial Dutch East Indies in the 18th century.
Nutrition For Man
In some nations, especially Europeans, has become the habit of drinking milk at breakfast. Milk continues to be produced by establishing a dairy farm. At this time, milk is not only drunk, but rather transformed into margarine, yogurt and even ice cream. Milk continues to be developed in line with progress of time. In Europe, the dairy industry is very advanced in terms of technology and quality of the milk itself. The milk produced in Europe, on average contain high nutrient content. It's very good for our health and growth. This is the cause, the average height of Europeans away from the average height of Asians. Milk contains a lot of calcium that can strengthen bones.
Source Of Milk
Milk not only from cows, but also from several other mammals. Among others:
- sheep
- goat
- horse
- donkey
- Camels, including camels in South America, such as the Yak Ilama.
In Russia and Laplandia area, a kind of deer dairy farm made for logistics milk in several regions of the Arctic circle. Contain adequate milk fat horse and donkey about 50% lower than cow's milk. Milk of whale contains the fat content largest, is 50% of the levels of the milk. However, whale milk is not consumed by humans.
