Is buffalo milk really better than milk? With so many brands, which one is the best?
Why is buffalo milk so expensive?
People always think that expensive things are generally good, but not necessarily. Just like diamonds, just a bunch of carbon is bought and depreciated, and it can be expensive just because it is scarce.
People who hold scarce resources have pricing power, and the fundamental reason why buffalo milk is so expensive at present is that buffalo milk production is too low.
It is the second largest source of milk in the world, but produces only 12% of the world's milk. The earliest people did not drink water milk, but made a variety of buffalo dairy products.
For example, the ginger milk and double skin milk in the two Guangdong regions of our country are made of water milk, many years earlier than drinking it.
The best way to use buffalo milk on a large scale is Italy, they do not drink buffalo milk, but use it as a raw material to make cream, cheese and so on.
Mozzarella cheese, produced in southern Italy, is the most famous, and Italians have also applied for geographical indications for this purpose.
Those who have made their own pizza should know that mozzarella cheese can make pizza that can be brushed, while other cheeses do not have this effect because the cheese inside it is made of water milk.
Because the cream and cheese rate of buffalo milk is much higher than that of the milk we often drink, the taste and texture are very good.
The output is low and the product quality is good, so the international price of buffalo milk is 3 times more expensive than that of ordinary milk. Nowadays, we have to drink buffalo milk, and the price will naturally be higher than that of milk.
So why can't we multiply milk-producing buffalo like milk?
In fact, the work has already begun. The world's largest number of milk buffalo and buffalo milk produce the highest milk not in Europe and the United States, but in India and Pakistan.
China introduced Mora buffalo from India in the 1960s and Nililafi milk buffalo from Pakistan in the 1980s, hoping to increase the milk production of buffalo.
The milk production and quality of these two breeds of cattle are similar, no one is more expensive than anyone, but some merchants always want to highlight their cattle, such as the Niri Lafite milk buffalo, which is called "Lafite cow" (touching porcelain)
Just laugh at this kind of publicity.
Buffalo milk has not developed, and an important reason is that the market has been occupied by milk.
In just these two years, it suddenly caught fire and the supply exceeded demand, so the high price will continue for a long time.
What is the nutritional value of water and milk?
The biggest selling point of buffalo milk is that all kinds of nutrients are higher than milk, and the taste is better than milk. Let's take a look at nutritional comparisons of the composition of these two types of milk.
Here is a glass of 244g buffalo milk and the main nutrients of whole milk.
The information is sourced from the website of the Ministry of Agriculture
From the table, it can be seen that the advantages and disadvantages of buffalo milk are very obvious, first of all, the advantages.
Under normal circumstances, the protein content of milk is 2.5g-3.6g/100ml, and when it is good, it should be 3.8g/100ml.
The protein content of buffalo milk generally starts at 3.8g/100ml, and can easily exceed 4g/100ml, which can be said to be a second kill.
In addition, calcium is 1.5 times more than milk, and the content of other minerals is also absolutely dominant.
Lactose and taste amino acids (substances that increase the taste of milk) not specified in the table are more than 1 times that of milk.
This, coupled with its high fat content, is why buffalo milk is sweeter, thicker and has a higher cheese yield.
However, keep in mind:
Any food, how high the content of what nutrients is blown by light blowing is a hooligan, but also depends on whether the human body can absorb it, how much it can absorb.
The human body has an absorption rate of the nutrients in the food ingested, and the nutrients required by the human body every day are almost unchanged.
At this amount, the human body stops absorbing, the more it is replenished, if the body does not absorb, it is waste.
At present, there is no statistical data on the nutrient absorption rate of buffalo milk, and it can only be said that the content advocated by the merchants should be calmly viewed.
In addition, the disadvantages of buffalo milk are also obvious, the energy, fat, saturated fatty acids and cholesterol content are more than 2 times that of milk, compared with the amount of fat contained in milk, this is indeed high.
Therefore, most of the buffalo milk we can buy is partially skimed, which will make the taste of buffalo milk much worse.
Its proud fat-soluble vitamins are also destroyed during the degreasing process, and the final resulting buffalo milk has about the same vitamin and fat content as ordinary whole milk.
If you want to continue to maintain a strong taste, the fat can not be removed too much, the brand on the "partial degreasing" has a lot of room to play.
Some people say that buffalo milk is like unsweetened Wangzai, and some say that the white rabbit milk candy is added with water, in addition to personal preference, the degree of skimming affects the taste of buffalo milk.
Some of the nutrients in buffalo milk are indeed very rich, and the things made are also delicious, but it is not recommended for long-term drinking.
One of the important reasons is that buffalo milk has just started, the state does not have a unified production standard for buffalo milk, and there is no unified evaluation standard for the nutritional content in it.
There is no standard, nutritional content, production technology, etc., all rely on the free play of the enterprise, it can be said that it depends on the "conscience", and the conscience of the enterprise is often the "conscience of Schrödinger".
You can wait until the relevant statistical survey data come out, and then decide whether to drink it after fully determining the impact of buffalo milk on the body.
If you really like it, you can buy buffalo milk produced by regular enterprises as a flavoring agent for life.
People with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases or high blood lipids, it is best not to drink buffalo milk, after all, fat is very important for buffalo milk, otherwise its strong taste is maintained by what.
Lactose intolerant people should not drink buffalo milk, its lactose content is more than 1 times that of milk.
Finally, it should be noted that many brands are playing the edge ball, rubbing the heat of buffalo milk, such as the following one, only has a lost relationship with buffalo (maybe the product is fine, but it is too easy for people to see the flowers)