What are some myths and truths about milk?

Drinking more milk can benefit our IQ, in fact, this thing is okay, and milk does not contain ingredients that improve our IQ.

Rumors:Breakfast milk is more nutritious than regular milk

Truth: Breakfast milk adds a lot of sugar and a little wheat flour, etc., which is similar to the nutrition of ordinary milk, but contains food additives such as flavor, which is not as good as ordinary milk. Breakfast milk has only one-third of the energy and protein** needed for breakfast, and is far from a substitute for breakfast.

For breakfast, you can drink a glass of pure milk, plus an appropriate amount of staple food, nuts, fruits and vegetables, which are fully nutritious.

High-calcium milk has a good effect on calcium supplementation

Truth: Milk itself is a calcium-rich food, and the calcium in it maintains a delicate balance relationship with protein, if you add a small amount of calcium to it, it may have little impact on this balance, and adding too much calcium will easily cause the instability of the protein system, so that the protein will precipitate, affecting the taste and quality. Therefore, adding calcium to milk is a very technically difficult process, and it is not appropriate to add more.

The calcium supplement effect of green vegetables is better than that of milk

Truth: An article widely circulated on WeChat said that the calcium supplement effect of green vegetables is better than milk. Milk, soy products, hard fruits, shrimp skin, and green leafy vegetables all contain calcium, and the effect of calcium supplementation is not only related to calcium content, but also related to the absorption rate.

Calcium in milk and dairy products is easily absorbed, while green leafy vegetables contain calcium, but they also contain oxalic acid and phytic acid, which can hinder calcium absorption. Leafy greens can be used as a calcium for foods other than milk.

Milk should not be mixed with fruit juice

Truth: First of all, most of the acids in vegetables and fruits are organic acids, such as malic acid and citric acid, which do not form insoluble compounds with calcium, so they do not inhibit calcium absorption. Secondly, the juice contains oxalic acid, which combines to form calcium oxalate precipitation, which affects calcium absorption.

However, it also depends on the amount of oxalic acid in the juice and the amount of juice mixed into the milk.

Papaya milk is also nutritious

Truth: Papaya contains proteolytic enzymes, and because of this, some people analyze that papaya will break down the protein in milk, making the nutrition of milk useless. In fact, the enzymes in papaya break down proteins into small peptides or amino acid fragments, which in turn make the nutrients easier for the body to absorb.

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Milk is **, the source is in the cow, not the milk. In order to increase milk production, some farmers will give growth hormone to their cows, increase milk, and increase their own benefits, which will make the presence of hormones in milk. Eating too many hormones can indeed upset the homeostasis of the person and threaten health, but it is not so scary.

This hormone for cattle is banned in China, as long as it is purchased through regular channels, there is no problem of containing hormones. Even if milk contains hormones, the amount is not too large, and WHO's food additives experts believe that a small amount of growth hormones will not affect the taste of milk and will not affect health.

In fact, everyone thinks that drinking too much milk is not good, so it must be nutritionally balanced, not necessarily drinking milk every day, drinking too much will appear to be very nutritious.

Milk cannot be sweetened, and those who believe in this rumor believe that milk sugar can produce toxic substances, mainly lysine and sucrose in milk that react to form toxic fructosamines. In fact, even if milk is not sweetened, it contains lactose, which also occurs when lactose is exposed to high temperatures. In addition, the boxed milk drinks with a shelf life of several months on the market are all sterilized by high temperature, and there are no reports of indigestion caused by added sugar, otherwise, cakes, bread and other high-temperature baked foods cannot be eaten.

I heard that drinking milk on an empty stomach is very harmful to the body, and it is likely to cause cancer, I think this is a rumor, drinking milk on an empty stomach is actually not much harmful to the body, and it will not cause cancer, and drinking milk on an empty stomach can allow the nutrients in the milk to be better absorbed.

When drinking milk, we should pay attention to the three major misunderstandings, and be careful to increase the burden of digestion and affect our health.