Devendra Kumar
India
Review Article
Designer Milk - A Milk of Intrinsic Health Benefit: A Review
Author(s): Pramila Umaraw, Akhilesh K Verma and Devendra KumarPramila Umaraw, Akhilesh K Verma and Devendra Kumar
The functional and nutraceutical food are more preferred and consumed by the health conscious people. Milk and milk products are considered as complete food containing most of the nutrients required for healthy life. The nutrients contents and its proportion in the milk can be modified by either incorporating required functional ingredients directly into fluid milk/dairy products or modifying the feed formulation of lactating animals to get desired milk composition. The modification of feed formulation not only results in secretion of milk of desired composition but also reduces the chances of incidence of certain diseases in lactating animals. Modification or enrichment in milk/milk products can be done in several ways such as modifications in protein/amino acid composition, modifications in fat/fatty acid profile, alteration in lactose, humanization of bovine milk, eliminating β.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2157-7110.1000426