Press a pack of butter
Take home message What a cow wants? A cow is a mammal and a ruminant. This makes her special, along with other ruminants. Like us, the cow has a digestive system with a stomach and intestines, however she is also …
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Very high yielding cows?
Take home message From a cow on pasture to an indoor animal What an animal will produce, depends on both nature and nurture, the interplay between genetics and environment. Cows have looked very different over the course of domestication. Roman …
Butter, technical or natural spread?
Take home message Realising spreadable butter kept at low ambient temperature Butter competes with margarine and ‘spreads’ when it comes to spreadability. Butter is a natural product with different fatty acid composition in summer or winter. Margarine is made up …
The taste of milk differs
Take home message German milk tested In February 2023, Germany’s Ökotest on milk published pasteurised milk in two forms, traditionally pasteurised (TP) and pasteurised plus mikrofiltration (MF). The difference between the two manifests itself in the shelf life of the …
Yak in Asia
Take home message The habitat of the Yak In northern India, Butan and China (including Himalayas, Ladakh and Highlands of Tibet), nomads live up to high altitudes. They can only survive at this altitude (3000 to 5400 m) because of their Yak (Bos grunniens). Yak are larger ruminants, domesticated by humans like the cow (Auerochs). Yak selection started in India about 7,500 years ago, and there too, like in French Lascaux, one finds petroglyphs depicting …
Image grass-fed milk
Take home message What is the deal with grass-fed milk? There are two aspects: the image of the sector and the health aspects for the cow (being outside, building vitamin D, grazing fresh grass) and for the consumer health due …
Grass based milk and Vitamin D3
Take home message Milk markers of grass-based systems, grazing and grass intake in cows are CLAc9t11 concentration, a low ratio of n6/n3 (around 1), a high vitamin D3 and phytanic acid concentration in milk fat and a low ratio of …
Fatty acids in all shapes and sizes
Milk fat consists mainly of triglycerides. Triglycerides consist of three (tri) fatty acids that are chained to a carbon structure made of glycerine. Fatty acids, abbreviated FA, themselves also largely consist of a carbon chain with 4 to 24 carbon …
