Milk: Bioactive Components and Role in Human Nutrition

Microbial Interactions in the Gut: The Role of Bioactive Components in Milk and Honey

Cows' milk fat and human nutrition.

Composition of milk fa t Cows’ milk fat consists mainly of triglycerides (98-99 g/100 g) together with smaller amounts of phospholipids (0 .9 ~ / I W g), cholesterol (0.3 g/100 g), carotenoids (6-7 pg/g), vitamin A (6-8 pg/g), vitamin D (0-5 pg cholecalciferoV1 oo g) and trace concentrations of other fat-soluble substances such as lanosterol, P-sitosterol, saturated hydrocarbons, squalene, glyc...

The Emerging Role of Dairy Proteins and Bioactive Peptides in Nutrition and Health Hypotensive Peptides from Milk Proteins

Hypertension is the major controllable risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) events such as myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, and end-stage diabetes. A 5 mm Hg decrease in blood pressure has been equated with 16% decrease in CVD. In the U.S. alone current annual antihypertensive drug costs are approximately $15 billion. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is ...

Lactose and lactose derivatives as bioactive ingredients in human nutrition

Lactose is a unique disaccharide, which occurs exclusively in the milk of mammals. It has wide applications as a food ingredient and in pharmaceutical preparations. Discouragement of milk consumption, because of the existence of lactase deficiency in the majority of the world population, is unjustified, because even in the complete absence of this enzyme, nutritionally significant volumes of mi...

Mycotoxins in milk for human nutrition: cow, sheep and human breast milk

Mycotoxins are produced pre harvest by some molds and secreted into various food items of plant origin, such cereals, vegetables, spices, Herbert Hof coffee and nuts. If the food items are not stored under adequate condi1 MVZ Labor Limbach, Heidelberg, Germany tions, a post harvest contaminationmay also occur. Animals and humans take them up by food items and some of them are stored and accumul...