big brown horse
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...jersey (and other heritage breed cow) and today's modern milk cows' milk. I know it is easier to digest, but I can't remember why and I'm trying to explain it to a friend that is suspecting a milk intolerance.
Please explain the difference b/t raw milks from
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dragonlaurel
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Old time dairy cows were raised outside- grazing. Huge dairy operation cows don't even go outside. The diet is much different than being able to eat the grass, the flowers and absorb the sunshine. Probably lots more nutrition in the milk then.
Actually, the most common milk-producing breed of dairy cattle in North America is the Holstein or Holstein-Freisen which is an old European breed.
I would imagine that the use of hormones in US dairy cattle, coupled with milk homogenization and the prevalence of low-fat milk have made cow's milk more difficult to digest over the years rather than the milk of any particular breed being more digestible. Homogenization pushes the milk fat globules through small openings which make them smaller and make them mix in with the milk better--but this changes the protein structure on the outside of each fat globule to something not found in nature. Skimming the fat from milk removes much of the nutrition and also hampers the body's ability to use the Vitamins A & D which are added to milk.
Then there are issues like lactose-intolerance and allergies to milk (mostly to milk proteins). I'm lactose-intolerant and have done a fair bit of reading about dairy products over the years. Mammals usually only drink milk (from their mothers) until they double their birth weight, over time many people become lactose-intolerant (as do other mammals such as cats) because their bodies stop producing adequate quantities of lactase-enzyme which is required to digest milk sugars.
So there are a lot of issues, but I've never read of any related to the actual breed of cow
I would imagine that the use of hormones in US dairy cattle, coupled with milk homogenization and the prevalence of low-fat milk have made cow's milk more difficult to digest over the years rather than the milk of any particular breed being more digestible. Homogenization pushes the milk fat globules through small openings which make them smaller and make them mix in with the milk better--but this changes the protein structure on the outside of each fat globule to something not found in nature. Skimming the fat from milk removes much of the nutrition and also hampers the body's ability to use the Vitamins A & D which are added to milk.
Then there are issues like lactose-intolerance and allergies to milk (mostly to milk proteins). I'm lactose-intolerant and have done a fair bit of reading about dairy products over the years. Mammals usually only drink milk (from their mothers) until they double their birth weight, over time many people become lactose-intolerant (as do other mammals such as cats) because their bodies stop producing adequate quantities of lactase-enzyme which is required to digest milk sugars.
So there are a lot of issues, but I've never read of any related to the actual breed of cow
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big brown horse
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Right, yep all that counts too. Thank you.
I'm trying to remember what my daughter's clinical dietitian told me...about how heritage bred cow's milk contains the same type of enzyme(?) or something as goat's and sheep milk. Bubblingbrooks and Wifezilla know what I'm talking about. Modern day cows have had that (whatever it is) bred out of them somehow.
I hate not having a good memory. :/
I'm trying to remember what my daughter's clinical dietitian told me...about how heritage bred cow's milk contains the same type of enzyme(?) or something as goat's and sheep milk. Bubblingbrooks and Wifezilla know what I'm talking about. Modern day cows have had that (whatever it is) bred out of them somehow.
I hate not having a good memory. :/
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Henrietta23
Yard Farmer
Afraid I have no clue. I know that DS tests allergic to cow's milk but not goat's milk. So he allergic not lactose intolerant. But I don't know what part of the milk he's allergic to! That would probably be good to know...
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big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
I figured it out! It is the casein peptides A1 and A2 that all commercial milk contains.
"Milk from Guernsey [and Jersey] cows, goats, sheep, and humans produce milk that do not have the problematic casein peptides when digested."
brb for the link
eta: http://www.enzymestuff.com/rtcowmilktypes.htm
There are better links than this, just google casein peptides A1 and A2.
"Milk from Guernsey [and Jersey] cows, goats, sheep, and humans produce milk that do not have the problematic casein peptides when digested."
brb for the link
eta: http://www.enzymestuff.com/rtcowmilktypes.htm
There are better links than this, just google casein peptides A1 and A2.
Henrietta23
Yard Farmer
Thanks for sharing that!
dragonlaurel
Improvising a more SS life
Good to know. Thanks!big brown horse said:
