When buying yogurt, how long do you spend reading the instructions on the packaging? Have you paid attention to the three words "restorative milk"?
What exactly is a "restorative milk"?
In layman's terms, it is milk or other dairy products that are blended with milk powder.
Most of the raw materials used in the restored milk are milk powder imported from abroad, commonly known as large bags of powder. After 2014, the price of international milk powder is much lower than the price of domestic milk sources, in order to reduce production costs, many companies use international milk powder as raw materials. Although research by the USDA shows that restored milk is not harmful to health, and from the perspective of nutritional content, restored milk is also nutritious, but its nutritional properties are indeed worse than fresh milk.
As early as 2005, the State Council issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Production and Operation Management of Liquid Milk", which clearly stipulated that anyone who uses restored milk in the production and processing of sterilized milk, sour milk and other products, regardless of the quantity, from October 15 of that year, the production enterprise must conspicuously mark "restored milk" on its product packaging. Nevertheless, it has happened that the restorative milk is not labeled or the label is not conspicuous.
Is there a loss of nutrients in restorative milk?
The biggest concern about restorative milk is that "high temperature destroys nutrition", in fact, the damage of heat to the nutrition of restored milk is far less than the legend. Moreover, milk is just one of many people's daily diets, and its advantage is to provide high-quality protein and calcium, two ingredients that are almost unaffected by high temperatures.
Restored milk and pure fresh milk are separated
The raw materials are different
The raw material of reconstituted milk is milk powder belonging to dairy products, and the raw material of pure fresh milk is liquid raw milk.
The nutritional content is different
The reconstituted milk undergoes two ultra-high temperature treatments, first from raw milk to milk powder, and then from milk powder to milk, the loss of nutrients is large, but protein and calcium are relatively intact; The nutrients in pure fresh milk can basically be preserved.
How to identify recombinant milk?
Looking at the product logo, liquid milk made of milk powder as raw material must be marked on the packaging with "reconstituted milk", if not marked is illegal.
Look at the standard code, the standard code GB25190 is pure milk, GB25191 is the modulated milk.
Look at the ingredient list, carefully check the product ingredient list, whether it is a single ingredient or other additives, whether milk powder has been added.
To put it in layman's terms, yogurt with raw milk ingredients is fresher and tastes pure, while yogurt with a modified milk ingredient is like canned and uses more food additives.