Abstract:

Milk is universaly recognized as nature's most nearly perfect food, and rightly so, because of its high nutrient content. We know that milk composition varies only slightly regardless of the environment to which animals are subjected.

One often wonders how multicolored cows can eat multi-colored feeds and produce white milk, which is quite unlike any other body fluid or secretion. The purpose of this paper is to review the present knowledge regarding milk synthesis by the cow's mammary glands.

 

Keywords:

synthesis of milk, dairy cows, mammary glands

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