The Nutrition of Buffalo Milk: A Comparison with Cow Milk

Abstract:

Milk is the essential source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. To explore the complex nutritive value of buffalo milk, the general composition, buffer capacity, the properties of buffalo yogurt were analyzed, meanwhile, cow milk as a control group was also studied. The results show that the nutritional value of buffalo milk is higher than that of cow milk, exhibiting the high protein, fat, lactose, total solids and nonfat solids contents, and the high buffer capacity. Yogurt with the probiotics characterized by acidification activity, syneresis and water-holding capacity, has the functional of lactobacillus resisting lactose intolerance and reducing constipation. Buffalo yogurt shows the higher stability and nutritional value.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 781-784)
• Pages: 1460-1463
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.781-784.1460
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Tong Xiang Yang, Fang Wang, Hong Li, Qing Su Liu, Quan Yang Li
• Keywords: Buffalo Milk, Milk Nutrition, Syneresis, Water-Holding Capacity, Yogurt

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