About Lesson
Introduction
- Milk is a complete food where nearly all the essential nutrients are available in the adequate and proper amount for the growth and development of the body.
- Milk is the most unique and ideal food for human being. It meets the nutritional needs requirements of the body betters than any other single food.
- From nutritional point of view milk is defined as “the most nearly perfect food”.
Though its excellent food value is beyond questions, but milk is not a completely perfect food due to some limitations.
- Deficient in Fe and Cu.
- Limited number of people exhibit allergy symptoms from ingesting milk to indicate that it is not beneficial in all respects for every one.
- Inadequate in the amount of vitamin C and nicotinic acid.
- Milk secreted by cow is poor source of vitamin D
- Lactose intolerance eg. Inability of individual to digested large amount of lactose.
Generation of gases and cause diarrhea due to fermentation of undigested lactose by intestinal Micro organism after 4-5 years.
Milk contains the following constituents
- Fat
- Proteins
- Minerals
- Carbohydrate
- Vitamins