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Everyone, I am your dairy buyer, today I will share with you the content about buffalo milk, I hope you like it!
In April last year, I wrote a review about pure milk in Xinjiang, and at that time, a friend left a message asking me to evaluate buffalo milk, forgive my ignorance, I didn't know that there was buffalo milk at that time, so I didn't dare to talk at will.
After more than a year of growth and understanding, I have also drunk several types of buffalo milk in the middle, the taste is too amazing, using "sugar-free wangzai" to describe it is a little unworthy of the taste of buffalo milk, our children also love to drink, it is really one of my secrets to bringing a baby. Now to share with you my experience, the whole article is only from a personal point of view, it is inevitably biased. If you have better suggestions and opinions, you can leave a rational message and discuss together!
This article will take you to understand the relevant knowledge and products of buffalo milk from seven parts, I hope you like it, the summary table and the red and black list are at the end of the article, you can go directly if you need.
1. Learn about buffalo
2. Introduction to buffalo milk
3. The nutritional value of buffalo milk
4. Buffalo milk dairy products
5. Buffalo milk brands on the market
6. How to identify high-quality buffalo milk
7. What buffalo milk is worth buying
★★★Part One: Understanding Buffalo ★★★
Buffalo is a large economic animal in tropical and subtropical regions, with the advantages of strong physique, high temperature resistance, high humidity climate, rough feeding resistance, strong disease resistance and long service life. The buffalo is docile and willing to be ridden, and in "The Shepherd Boy Refers to Xinghua Village", the shepherd boy on the back of the cow rides the buffalo.
Buffalo are generally divided into two types: river buffalo and swamp buffalo, and river buffalo are mainly distributed in India, Pakistan and Mediterranean coastal countries and regions; Marsh buffalo are mainly found on the mainland and in Southeast Asian countries. The Chinese buffalo belongs to the swamp type buffalo and currently has more than 20 breeds. In addition to the native buffalo, the mainland has introduced foreign excellent breeds of dairy buffalo into China since the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, such as the Niri-Lafite buffalo in Pakistan, the Mora buffalo in India, and the Mediterranean buffalo in Italy, and crossed them with Chinese buffalo to obtain better breeds.
As can be seen from the figure below, the southern regions of the mainland such as Liangguang and Yungui are areas with a high number of buffalo stocks, especially in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which has broken through the sky, which is why eight out of nine out of ten buffalo milk that can be bought on the market is produced in Guangxi. Of course, in terms of total inventory, female buffalo and black and white pattern cows are not comparable, but the development and utilization of buffalo milk has also greatly alleviated the dilemma of "northern milk to the south".
These places take advantage of the characteristics of buffalo's high conversion rate of roughage energy and crude protein, strong digestion of crude fiber feed, and make full use of a large number of elephant grass, sugarcane leaves, cassava residue, pineapple skin (these are also local cash crops) that cannot be directly used by humans and other livestock and poultry as roughage, and transform the agricultural and sideline products that were originally directly discarded into the main food of buffalo, until they are converted into economic products such as buffalo, which can be said to turn waste into treasure. And this is also the main reason why the merchants promote why buffalo milk tastes good, the relationship between the two is not big, what do you think?
★★★Prat Two: An introduction to ★★★ buffalo milk
Buffalo milk, as the name suggests, is the milk produced by the mother buffalo. Compared with the milk we often see (milk produced by black and white pattern cows, hereinafter referred to as ordinary milk), some nutrients such as protein and fat content of buffalo milk are higher. Some data show that the nutritional value of 1 kg of buffalo milk is equivalent to 1.85 kg of black and white flower milk, so the relative selling price of buffalo milk is also higher, and some merchants directly call it "treasure in milk".
The picture on the left shows the common black and white pattern cow, and the picture on the right shows the buffalo
★★★Part Three: The nutritional value ★★★ of buffalo milk
There are at least 100 kinds of chemical components of buffalo milk, the main chemical components are water, fat, protein, lactose, minerals, vitamins and trace elements. People who often do milk evaluation know that total solids (dry matter) is an important indicator of dairy products, representing the total nutritional content, and the dry matter content of buffalo milk can reach 18.4%, which is 10% to 27% higher than ordinary milk and human milk.
Buffalo milk is thicker, it is high in protein and fat, and it tastes sweet, "Sugar-free Wangzai" is my evaluation of them! Compared with protein higher than ordinary cow's milk, buffalo milk is characterized by a much higher fat content. Relevant data show that the fat content of buffalo milk is generally about 4% to 6%, up to 7.59%, which is much higher than the fat content of ordinary milk of 3.0% to 4.0%.
★★★Part Four: Buffalo milk dairy products ★★★
Based on the above situation, in addition to drinking directly as pure milk, buffalo milk is particularly suitable for processing into a variety of high-quality dairy products. At present, dairy products made by the processing of buffalo milk at home and abroad include fresh milk, pure milk, yogurt, frozen curd, ice cream, cream, condensed milk, milk powder, etc. In recent years, under the efforts of mainland dairy science and technology personnel, buffalo dairy products have been constantly innovating. In particular, the achievements in buffalo cheese are particularly remarkable, and it has successively developed excellent and aromatic products, including semi-hard mature cheese, mozarella cheese, spicy cheese, brine cheese, spreadable cheese, etc., and has won many awards.
In addition, the people of the two Guangxi (Guangdong and Guangxi) areas also use buffalo milk to make unique and flavorful double-skin milk, bump ginger milk, papaya juice milk and other products. If you have a craft, you can try it at home!
All kinds of buffalo milk products
★★★Part Five: The buffalo milk brand ★★★ on the market
Note 1: Affected by the process, logistics, etc., today we are mainly discussing the pure buffalo milk that is common and can be purchased normally on the market, that is, pure milk in the high-temperature sterilization process, and the rest of buffalo milk dairy products are not discussed.
Note 2: Due to the high fat content of buffalo milk, some buffalo milk brands will partially or completely skim the pure milk to ensure that the fat content is not excessively high. This is a matter of process, and the quality of the milk should not be affected.
Note 3: The nutrition facts table of some brands is not measured by 100g, so that the nutritional content "looks" particularly high, and everyone should pay attention when purchasing.
1. Zhuangniu Dairy
The buffalo milk brand from Guangxi, founded in 1993, claims to be jointly produced with the Buffalo Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Guangxi), but according to news reports, Zhuangniu Dairy should have purchased buffalo milk from the pastures of the Buffalo Research Institute (and also from farmers), which is suspected of excessive publicity.
Tmall flagship stores and Jingdong's self-operated flagship stores sell several types of pure buffalo milk, high-calcium pure buffalo milk and A2 milk source pure buffalo milk. These milk ingredients are only buffalo milk, you can buy it with confidence, and the process is partially skimmed sterilized milk.
1. Zhuangniu pure buffalo milk
There are 125ml×10 and 199ml×12 packages, so you can buy them according to the amount your child drinks!
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.8g/100ml
Fat: 3.4g/100ml
钙：130mg/100ml
钠：62mg/100ml
Cost performance: 199ml×12 boxes of Jingdong flagship store price 79 yuan, 1 yuan can buy 30.23ml.
It should be noted that the nutritional content of 125ml is calculated according to the amount of 1 box, so please pay attention when purchasing. Converted to 100g, the indicator is actually the same, so this is also a small trick played by merchants!
2. Zhuangniu native high-calcium buffalo milk
Spec.: 125ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.8g/100ml
Fat: 3.2g/100ml
钙：124.8mg/100ml
钠：62mg/100ml
Cost performance: Jingdong flagship store price 75.6 yuan (125ml×16), 1 yuan can buy 24.46ml.
I don't know if you have noticed, the so-called native high calcium, the converted calcium content is lower than the ordinary buffalo milk above, is it fooling consumers?
3. Zhuangniu A2 milk source pure buffalo milk
Spec.: 125ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.8g/100ml
Fat: 3.2g/100ml
钙：124.8mg/100ml
钠：62mg/100ml
From the perspective of nutritional content alone, there is no difference from the previous two, 1 yuan can buy 21.79ml.
4. Purchase advice
Zhuangniu buffalo milk products are not much, and the nutritional content is inverted, from the perspective of cost performance, it is recommended that you buy the first most common, 1 yuan can buy 1.15g protein, 39.3mg calcium.
Second, 100 million small bottles of dairy industry
The source of milk comes from the natural pastures of the Zuojiang River Basin (Chongzuo City) in Guangxi, and the cattle breed is Mora buffalo, which we mentioned earlier, which is a high-quality buffalo from India. There are three types of ordinary buffalo milk, high-calcium buffalo milk and 0 sucrose buffalo milk on sale in the flagship store.
100 million vials of pure buffalo milk
Specifications: 125ml, 220ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.9g/100ml
Fat: 3.1g/100ml
钙：130mg/100ml
钠：60mg/100ml
The store still uses the nutritional content of each carton of milk to advertise, and consumers who don't know what to do will be excited to see it and buy "fairy" dairy products
。 In fact, a little conversion, that is, 3.9g/100ml, the average level of buffalo milk. The process is partially skimmed sterilized milk, and 32.93ml can be purchased for 1 yuan.
200 million vials of high-calcium buffalo milk, sugar-free high-calcium buffalo milk
These two kinds of milk are partially skimmed modified buffalo milk, which is what we often call modulated milk, because many food additives, food flavors, calcium carbonate, etc. are added to enhance the taste and nutrients, the difference between the two is that white sugar is not added. I won't recommend it to everyone here, so if you are interested, you can search for it. Other brands of blended milk below are no longer recommended in detail.
3. Purchase advice
From the shelf products of the flagship store, 100 million vials are specialized in buffalo milk products, it is recommended that you buy the first one, 1 yuan can buy 1.28g of protein, 42.8mg of calcium.
3. Lechun Dairy
Lechun is a dairy company from Beijing, their buffalo milk source is Nili-Lafite breed buffalo from Pakistan, rich in A2-β casein, Lechun has pastures in Yulin and Beihai City, Guangxi. There is only one product on sale in the Lechun Milk flagship store, which is very specialized.
1. Le Chun Wanli pick a latfite's milk
Specifications: 125ml, 220ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 4.0g/100ml
Fat: 3.0g/100ml
钙：120mg/100ml
钠：60mg/100ml
Although the processing technology is not indicated in the product details, from the perspective of fat content, this is also a partially skimmed sterilized milk, and Lechun carefully marked "not recommended for infants under 1 year old". 1 yuan can buy 28.76ml.
2. Purchase advice
Lechun's buffalo milk comes in 125ml and 200ml specifications, and there are 2 boxes of early tasting, 9 boxes, 10 boxes, 12 boxes, 20 boxes, 24 boxes and Jingdong PLUS member co-branded products. 1 yuan can buy 1.15g of protein and 34.51mg of calcium.
4. Huangshi Dairy
Looking at the products involving buffalo milk in the flagship store of Huangshi Dairy, they can be divided into three categories according to ingredients: only raw buffalo milk, raw buffalo milk & raw buffalo milk (raw buffalo milk ≥90%) and raw buffalo milk & raw buffalo milk. According to the ranking requirements of the proportion of ingredients from high to the bottom, the proportion of buffalo milk in the third type of dairy products is less than 50%, but the publicity of buffalo milk accounts for the vast majority in the publicity details of such products, is this suspected of inducing consumers?
1. Royal Dairy fresh milk
Spec.: 200ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.6g/100ml
Fat: 3.9g/100ml
钙：110mg/100ml
钠：52mg/100ml
Rare low-temperature buffalo milk, using INF steam immersion sterilization technology, also known as INF0.09 seconds ultra-instantaneous sterilization technology, we often see advertising of Yue fresh live milk using this technology, the use of this technology sterilized milk taste is very close to pasteurized milk, is a higher quality fresh milk. Its shelf life has reached 15 days, and it has the basic conditions for transportation to the north and south of the river through the cold chain. 1 yuan can buy 29.48ml.
2. Morafel pure buffalo milk
Spec.: 250ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.9g/100g
Fat: 4.2g/100g
钙：130mg/100g
钠：60mg/100g
Morafil buffalo milk from Guangxi, the processing technology is partially skimmed sterilized milk, this one has a relatively high fat content, and you need to pay attention to the requirements for energy intake. 1 yuan can buy 48.3ml.
3. Other categories
Other buffalo milk products of King's Dairy include yogurt with 10% buffalo milk, buffalo pure milk with 90% buffalo milk, and pure milk with a buffalo milk content of less than 50%.
4. Purchase advice
In terms of taste, it is definitely better that low-temperature milk is better, friends who like it can buy the first one, 1 yuan can buy 1.06g of protein, 32.43mg of calcium; Those who pursue cost-effectiveness can buy the second one, 1 yuan can buy 1.88g of protein and 62.79mg of calcium. We don't have to buy other products with raw milk or other food additives.
5. Baifei buttermilk industry
Baifei cheese is a brand that can not be bypassed when it comes to buffalo milk, from their product line can also be seen, is indeed a leading enterprise in the field of buffalo milk, the product line in addition to ordinary buffalo pure milk, but also high calcium, selenium-rich, yogurt, milk drinks, etc., can be said to basically cover a variety of dairy products.
1. Buffalo buffalo pure milk (3.8)
Spec.: 200ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.8g/100ml
Fat: 3.6g/100ml
钙：130mg/100ml
钠：60mg/100ml
Buffalo pure milk of partial skim sterilized milk processing technology, the basic model of buffalo milk with butterfly, cost-effective. 1 yuan can buy 35.63ml.
2. Buffalo Buffalo Pure Milk (4.0)
Spec.: 200ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 4.0g/100ml
Fat: 3.6g/100ml
钙：130mg/100ml
钠：60mg/100ml
The difference between the buffalo pure milk of the partial skim sterilized milk processing process and the first one is the protein content, one 3.8 and one 4.0, and the others are the same. 1 yuan can buy 31.25ml.
3. Butterbromine thick buffalo pure milk
30.0 off every 300.0, up to 40000 yuan offStart time: 2023-08-13 20:00:00End time: 2023-08-22 23:59:59
8.50% off when you buy 2 pieces
$10 off $99 or more
Spec.: 200ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 4.2g/100ml
Fat: 3.8g/100ml
钙：130mg/100ml
钠：65mg/100ml
Some of the defatted sterilized milk processing technology, protein, fat content and other indicators are slightly improved compared with the previous two, but also bring another upgrade of taste. 1 yuan can buy 34.54ml.
4. Pure milk of selenium-rich buffalo
8.50% off when you buy 2 pieces
$10 off $99 or more
Spec.: 200ml
Ingredients: Raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.8g/100ml
Fat: 3.6g/100ml
钙：130mg/100ml
钠：60mg/100ml
硒：60ug/100ml
The selenium-rich buffalo milk of part of the defatted sterilized milk processing process realizes the output of selenium-rich milk by feeding selenium-rich feed, which is more suitable for the elderly and children to drink, care for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and promote growth. 1 yuan can buy 28.61ml.
5. Other categories
Other products also include low-fat buffalo pure milk with a fat content of only 1.5g/100ml, buffalo yogurt, buffalo kefir drink, high-calcium modulated milk, etc., because raw milk or other food additives are added, which are not recommended in this article, so I will not repeat it.
6. Purchase advice
The first 1 yuan can buy 1.35g of protein and 46.31mg of calcium; The second 1 yuan can buy 1.25g of protein and 40.63mg of calcium; The third 1 yuan can buy 1.45g of protein and 44.9mg of calcium; The fourth 1 yuan can buy 1.08g of protein and 37.19mg of calcium. Those who pursue cost-effectiveness can buy the third model, those who have the need to supplement selenium can buy the fourth one, and we don't have to buy other products with raw milk or other food additives.
6. Grandma Liu Dairy next door
The brand name "Grandma Liu next door" is very interesting, there are different specifications of buffalo milk, but unfortunately all of them are pure milk with a proportion of less than 50% of buffalo milk, and you can completely abandon this brand when purchasing.
1. Product Information
Specifications: 125ml, 200ml, 250ml
Ingredients: raw milk, raw buffalo milk
Protein: 3.6 or 4.0g/100ml
Fat: 3.8 or 4.2g/100ml
Calcium: 120 or 130mg/100ml
Sodium: 58 or 60mg/100ml
2. Purchase advice
If you want to drink pure buffalo milk, then it is not recommended to buy products of this brand.
7. Adopt a cow and dairy industry
Please pay attention to the text on the package "Eat sugar cane buffalo pure milk", not pure buffalo milk! We'll see how it's different from the pure buffalo milk above. The source of buffalo milk from Guizhou and Guangxi is said to be buffalo milk grown up eating sugar cane, and it has the taste of ice cream.
1. Product Information
The buffalo milk sold in the flagship store is only 200g/box package, which is full-fat sterilized milk.
Specification: 200g, there are three kinds of packaging: 10, 12 and 16 boxes
Ingredients: raw buffalo milk, raw cow's milk
Protein: 4.0g/100g
Fat: 4.2g/100g
钙：100mg/100g
钠：60mg/100g
Raw buffalo milk is in front of raw milk, indicating that the content of buffalo milk is more than 50%. The protein content of the product is online, the calcium content is low, the fat content is high, and 55.40g can be purchased for 1 yuan.
2. Purchase advice
Under the banner of buffalo milk, milk mixed with pure milk to fool consumers, if you want to drink pure buffalo, then it is not recommended to buy the brand's products.
★★★Part Six: How to identify high-quality buffalo milk ★★★
Through the above introduction and comparison, you can judge whether a buffalo milk is a high-quality buffalo milk through the milk source, cow breed, ingredient list, nutrition facts list, etc.
From the perspective of milk source, most of the buffalo milk products on the market come from Guangxi;
In terms of dairy breeds, there are several traditional high-quality buffalo breeds Neili-Lafite buffalo, Morafel buffalo, Mediterranean buffalo, etc.;
Looking at the ingredient list is simpler, only raw buffalo milk buffalo milk products will not be too bad, products with any other ingredients added you have to consider;
From the analysis of the nutrition facts table, you can choose products high in protein, calcium, and low in fat and sodium.
★★★Part Seven: What buffalo milk is worth buying ★★★
It is worth buying the red list (in order of recommendation)
1. Huangshi Dairy fresh milk, reason for recommendation: The taste of fresh milk is unparalleled, in any case it is my first choice, not to mention that he has the lowest sodium content.
2. Royal Dairy Morafir pure buffalo milk, recommended reason: the most cost-effective, the fly in the ointment is also the highest fat content.
3. Thick buffalo pure milk of Baifei cheese, reason for recommendation: high cost performance, 4.2 protein, 130 calcium content are the highest.
Not worth buying the black list (in no particular order)
The reason for being on the black list is because these brands do not have pure buffalo milk products, but they all sell raw milk and raw buffalo milk mixed milk products under the sign of buffalo milk, not because there is a problem with the dairy product itself, please pay attention.
Grandma Liu next door, adopt a cow, Lysel, etc.
Finally, complain about the naming of buffalo milk products, the merchant really played the word game to the extreme. According to the specification, the ingredients are only raw buffalo milk, you can print "XXX pure buffalo milk (milk)" on the outer packaging, and products containing raw cow's milk, only "XXX buffalo pure milk" can be printed on the outer packaging, this point of word games everyone must polish their eyes when purchasing.
The author declares that this article is not of interest, and welcomes rational communication and harmonious discussion~