Since I was a child, I have been a true milk lover, and my love for milk continues to this day. Whether it's milk, or all kinds of milk products, there's hardly anything I don't like. The rich taste of milk, the entrance is full of happiness, coupled with high nutritional value, therefore, I have lamented countless times, milk is really a fairy-level natural food.
A key factor in determining whether milk is good or not is where it comes from. In the industry, there is also the "golden milk source belt", which refers to the fact that most of the world's good milk comes from about 40-50 ° latitude from north to south. Because of the climate, soil, water and other factors in these places, together determine the growth environment of pasture and dairy cattle and sheep, which can directly affect the quality of milk.
Among the many milk producing areas in China, there are 6 places, which are more famous after screening, and are also recognized as high-quality milk source production places in the industry. So today, Lazy Meow will talk to you about the topic of milk production, let's take a look, where are these 6 places? Is there a hometown for you?
When it comes to Xinjiang cuisine, I believe everyone will blurt out large plates of chicken, roasted whole lamb, lamb skewers, etc. In fact, I want to say that the milk in Xinjiang is called first-class good.
The grasslands of Xinjiang are mainly concentrated in the northern and southern regions of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang. This area is humid and foggy, with a large temperature difference between day and night and long sunshine hours, which is very suitable for the growth of pasture grass. The melting snow water of the Tianshan Mountains also nourishes this grassland. All of this provides a unique innate advantage for the growth of dairy cows, which can be described as a natural golden pasture.
Cows living in pastures in Xinjiang eat natural pasture grass and do not need to add any hormones to promote the growth of cows. In the previous melamine milk incident, there was no local milk brand in Xinjiang. Friends who have drunk Xinjiang milk, the biggest feeling for it, should be the strong taste of milk, drinking the taste is particularly mellow.
When it comes to the steppe, we have to mention a place, Inner Mongolia. From the Hulunbuir Grassland in the north, to the Ordos Grassland in the southwest, from the Horqin Grassland in the east to the Alashan Desert Grassland in the west, Inner Mongolia has nearly 1.3 billion mu of natural grassland, accounting for 22% of the country's grassland area.
Inner Mongolia is the world's recognized golden milk source belt. The pasture resources here are abundant, and because of the abundant sunshine time and rich vegetation food chain, it provides good forage feed and high-quality nutrition for the growth of dairy cows. If you go to the homes of local herders in Inner Mongolia, the hospitable herders will hold milk tea from Inner Mongolia and invite you to drink milk tea and eat authentic Inner Mongolian beef and mutton.
Heilongjiang is the northernmost provincial-level administrative region in China, spanning the four major river systems of Heilongjiang, Ussuri River, Songhua River and Suifen River, located between 43° 26 ′ -53 ° 33 ′ north latitude, which covers the golden milk source belt of 40-50 ° N. The land here is vast, the soil is fertile, and it is mostly black soil. Therefore, the pasture grown here is very rich, and the cows that eat these pastures will naturally produce milk that will not be of bad quality.
After more than 50 years of improvement and breeding, Heilongjiang has bred a high-quality and high-yield Holstein dairy cattle population with local characteristics, and is also the largest Holstein dairy cow production base in China. Like many well-known milk brands in China, the choice is the local milk source in Heilongjiang.
Hebei, located in North China, between 36 ° 05 ' -42 ° 40 ′ north latitude, the north and Inner Mongolia border, from this latitude and geographical location, it is known that the milk source in Hebei will not be bad. Located in the North China Plain, Hebei is the only province in China with plateaus, mountains, hills, plains, lakes and seashores.
Relying on the extension of the Inner Mongolian steppe - the Bashang Grassland and the Kangxi Grassland, Hebei is also a very famous milk producing area in North China. The protagonist of the "melamine" incident that year, Sanlu Milk, is milk from Hebei. However, I believe that after this incident, the local quality control of milk should be more stringent.
Yunnan, belongs to the mountainous plateau terrain, most of the places are located in the middle altitude area, and the climate has the characteristics of low latitude, monsoon, mountainous climate, so the local plateau milk, but also has a special characteristics. In Dali, Yunnan Province, there is a county town called "Eryuan", the locals have been raising cattle for milk since ancient times, milk boiled bait silk, but also the locals most commonly eat breakfast.
Yunnan local highland milk, drink full of milk flavor, the taste is natural and mellow, drink more will not feel greasy, and there is no fishy taste, but also with a faint sweetness. That huge milk smell is really endless as soon as you drink it.
You should have heard or tasted milk snacks such as double skin milk and ginger bump milk, and their common feature is that milk is very easy to coagulate, and there will be a layer of milk skin on the surface. The raw milk used in double skin milk and ginger milk is not ordinary milk, but buffalo milk.
Buffalo milk, as the name suggests, is the milk produced by buffalo. China's Guangxi region is the main production area of buffalo, so the buffalo milk produced in Guangxi is also well-known in the country. Because of the scarcity of buffalo and the low milk production of buffalo, the price of buffalo milk is much higher than that of ordinary milk. But friends who have drunk buffalo milk will be like me, impressed by the strong smell of milk.
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Whether milk is good or not, it has a close relationship with cows that produce milk. Where cows grow and the food they eat affect the quality of milk produced by cows. Therefore, I would like to say that a good water and soil can also achieve a good milk. The 6 places mentioned above, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Yunnan and Guangxi, are all selected and well-known milk producing areas in China.
The next time you go to the supermarket to buy milk, if you don't know which place to choose the milk is good, you may wish to consider trying the milk from these 6 local milk sources. Because of the inherent advantages of geographical location, climate characteristics, soil environment, etc., the quality of milk produced in these places is usually not bad.
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