Fresh milk can be heated and drunk, just that it will make the nutritional value of the milk lower. When it comes to heating milk, some of you may say that heating also sterilizes and ensures safety. In most cases, this doesn't actually hold true.

Heating is indeed an effective way to sterilize milk, but usually we drink milk either ordered directly from the manufacturer or go to the supermarket, and end up drinking packaged milk, which mainly consists of two types of milk: UHT milk or pasteurized milk. This type of milk in the factory has taken strict sterilization measures, coupled with the vacuum packaging process, in the shelf life is no need to worry about the safety of the open directly after drinking on it.

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Milk heating, indeed, will make the nutritional value of milk reduced. Many nutrients in milk, such as vitamins, proteins and bioactive substances and other components, are sensitive to high temperatures and are easily destroyed in the process of heating. The higher the heating temperature and the longer the time, the more serious the destruction. In particular, some friends will pour the milk into the pot directly boil, or into the microwave oven in high temperature heating, which will lead to the nutritional value of milk greatly reduced.

Experiments have shown that once milk is heated to more than 60 degrees Celsius, the nutrients begin to be destroyed. When heated to more than 100 ℃, many protein components will occur denaturation reaction, vitamin will also be a large loss. Especially the bioactive components, known as the essence of milk, after intense heating is easily destroyed. In order to taste and sacrifice nutrition, drink the loss of biologically active substances "dead milk", the loss is not worth it.

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