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Nutritive value   of milk; Milk is an almost ideal food. It has high nutritive value. It supplies body-building proteins, bone-forming minerals and healthy –giving vitamins and furnishes energy-giving lactose and milk fat. Besides supplying certain essential fatty acids, it contain the above nutrients in an easily digestible and assimilable form All these properties make milk an important food for pregnant mother, growing children, adolescents, adults, invalids, convalescents and patients alike.   Proteins : Milk proteins are complete proteins of high quality , i.e. they contain all the essential amino-acids   in fairly large quantities Minerals : Pratically all the minerals elements found in milk are essential for nutrition.   Milk is an excellent source of calcium and phosphprus , both of which , together with vitamin D,  are essential for bone formation. Milk is rather low in iron, copper and iodine. Vitamins: These are accessory food factors wh...

       Concept of clean milk Defination: Clean Milk ' is  defined  as  milk  drawn from the udder of healthy animals, which is collected in  clean  dry  milking  pails and free from extraneous matters like dust, dirt, flies, hay, manure etc. Clean milk has a normal composition, possesses a natural milk flavour with low bacterial count and is safe for human consumption Need for clean milk production : —The objective of clean milk can be achieved by practical application of science based system such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP). —Not only it should produce quantum milk, but must also be free from debris, microbes and must remain so, till it is consumed. — Raw milk quickly becomes sour when it is stored for long periods at high ambient temperatures prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries. — This is because, the inherent lactic acid bacteria and contaminating microorganisms from milk vessels or...