Facts about milk

Although milk has become a universal beverage, there are many interesting facts about it. Listed below are a few of them: ■ Cow does not produce milk until it bears the calf.

■ The weight of the average dairy cow is equal to weight of adult male polar bear. ■ Cow produces average 90 glasses of milk per day, i.e. about 200.000 glasses of milk during its life.

■ The water content in milk accounts for 85-95% of the total volume. The rest consists of vitamins, fibers, carbohydrates and fats.

■ Before the milking device was invented, farmers could milk around six cows per hour, and today this figure has increased up to hundred cows per hour.

■ Camel milk is easily consumed by people suffering with lactose intolerance, and contains more vitamin C than cow's milk. Camel milk is the basic food for people living in deserts and inhabitants of Somalia.

■ Milk helps to deduce a fresh ink spot easily. It is recommended to wipe with milk gilded frames and mirrors.

■ Human body digests milk due to special enzyme - lactose. The ability to drink milk has given them competitive advantage among the inhabitants of Northern Europe, who experienced lack of calcium and vitamin D.

■ Humans began to consume animal's milk for the first time in 8-9th millennium B.C. while people of Middle East managed to get milk from sheep and goats. In the 7th millennium at the territory of modern Turkey people started to graze cows.

■ Cow's milk is the most popular kind of milk and its annual manufacturing exceeds 400 million tons. ■ The milk of seals is said to have the highest level of fat exceeding 50% and whales up to 50 % of fat. Donkey and horse milk contains least amount of fat.

■ Scientists from Mcmasters University in the USA concluded that heavy milk users train at fitness clubs more effectively. They found out that women who drink two glasses of milk per day after training in gym loose more fat and would build more muscles.