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Welcome to Milk Facts
Our goal is to provide consumers with factual, scientifically supported information about the composition, nutritional content, health issues, and microbial issues associated wit...
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Nutrient Content of Milk Varieties | MilkFacts.info
Nutrient Content of Milk Varieties
This section contains tables of the nutrient content values in milk from cows (whole, 2% fat, 1% fat, skim), goat, sheep, and water buffalo. Data used to compile the...
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Nutritional Components in Milk | MilkFacts.info
Nutritional Components in Milk
This page describes the function of nutritional components in milk: Energy, Water, Carbohydrate, Fat, Protein, Vitamins, Minerals, and Minor Biological Proteins & Enzyme...
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Nutrition Facts | MilkFacts.info
How the Body Digests Food & Absorbs Nutritional Components
Food undergoes mechanical, chemical, and enzymatic digestion as it travels from the mouth to the stomach to the intestines. Many chemicals, ...
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Milk Protein | MilkFacts.info
Milk Protein
General Protein Definition & Chemistry
Proteins are chains of amino acid molecules connected by peptide bonds.
There are many types of proteins and each has its own amino acid sequence ...
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Milk Composition | MilkFacts.info
Unless otherwise stated, the information presented in this website refers to cow's milk.
In general, the gross composition of cow's milk in the U.S. is 87.7% water, 4.9% lactose (carbohydrate), 3.4% f...