MILK
The record milk production for a single cow in a year is 55,660 pounds of milk.
The milk of a female ass comes closest to human milk than any other domestic animal.
A gallon of milk weighs 8.59 lbs.
Cheese takes up about 1/10 the volume of the milk it was made from.
Almost every species of livestock has been milked, including horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, camels, buffaloes, reindeer, and yaks. The only exception is the pig, although nutritionally its milk is close to that of human beings.
The ancient Greeks and Romans referred to barbarians as "milk drinkers."
Poppea, the wife of Domitius Nero always traveled with 500 nursing asses so she could take milk baths to keep her skin smooth and supple.
Archaeological evidence indicates that Britons were milking cows at least 6,000 years ago.
Plastic milk bottles were introduced in 1967.
The average annual milk production per dairy cow in the U.S. is over 12,000 pounds.
2,500 gallons of blood must flow through a cow's udder each day to maintain a production of about 6 gallons of milk per day. That's 10 tons of blood to produce 50 pounds of milk.
It takes about 350 squirts for each gallon of milk from a cow.
Most of the calcium in milk is not bound up in the fat globules that are removed when 'skimming' the milk, but rather in the water content of the milk. Removing the part of the milk (the milk fat) with a lower percentage of calcium, increases the relative percentage of calcium in the remaining milk
Milk was adopted as the official state beverage of North Carolina in 1987.
Milk is also the official state beverage of North Dakota, New York and Oklahoma.
Wisconsin leads the U.S. in milk production.
Top Milk (cows) producing countries: (2000)
US - 76 million tonnes
Russia - 32 million tonnes
India - 31 million tonnes
Germany - 28 million tonnes
France - 25 million tonnes.
Camel's milk is about 5.5% milkfat, 7.5% milk solids and 87% water.
Cow's milk is about 3.5% milkfat, 8.5% milk solids and 88% water.
Ewe's milk is about 8% milkfat, 11.5% milk solids and 80.5% water.
Mare's Milk is about 1% milkfat, 8.5% milk solids and 90.5% water.
Reindeer's milk is about 22.5% milkfat, 14.5% milk solids and 63% water.
Water Buffalo milk is about 7.5% milkfat, 10.5% milk solids and 82% water.
Most people that are allergic to cow milk products or who are lactose intolerant can use goat and sheep milk products. The lactose or protein in the milk is what usually causes the allergic reaction or intolerance. Goat & sheep milk both have lactose and protein but it is of a different make up that doesn't bother most people.
The protein in almonds is more like the proteins in human breast milk of all the seeds and nuts, which is why it is the choice of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine as the base for its baby formula.
The proteins in cow's milk are huge, fit for an animal that will one day weigh in over 500 lbs. The proteins in humans, sheep, and goats, are very short, which is why babies (the infirm, and arthritics) will often thrive on goat's milk, and raw goat's milk also is loaded with the enzymes that enable the metabolizing of the calcium.
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