Despite all the nut and oat milks Americans consume, the cow variety is becoming popular again. There are several factors behidnd it . Although maybe the best reason is it does taste good and brings a sense of nostalgia to drinking it.
Regular contributor Julia Moskin wrote about the dairy phenomenon in today's New York Times Wednesday's Food section. Milk is being rediscovered by Gen Zers who were basically raise don plant milks. Tiktokkers like twenty-six year old Peggy Xu has filmed her self drinking glasses of it. she present s the old school version of the unhomogenized kind in traditional glass bottles. There even a layer of cream at the top. she does have to explain why this happens .Homogenization is the process that evenly distributes the cream through the milk. She also explains that pasteurization is the process that rids the dairy of bacteria, first done by the famed Louis Pasteur in the 1850's. Ms Xu found that people were curious. They genuinely didn't know what milk was anymore.Now raw milk, much touted by Robert F.Kennedy Jr. is also making its' way onto to Tiktok. Many like Ballerina Farms' the newly famed Hannah Neelman are giving their children raw milk to drink.
However raw milk can be tricky.. Yes, it's full of a lot of good stuff like probiotic bacteria which helps in gut health but it also can contain such life threatening bacteria such as salmonella E.coli, campylobactor and listeria. Now there is the added scare of contacting the H5N1 virus, a strain fo avian flu. through it.Many dairy workers wound up with the virus after handling raw milk. Raw milk proved to be a health threat in the 19th Century when it was responsible for the deaths of thousands of children in New York City.Even Yje Times istelf declared that raw, in pasteurized adulterated milk "was a danger becoming intolerable to civilized society." Luckily that all changed in the Twentieth Century when milk has to be both pasteurized and homogenized along with being infused with Vitamin D. People believed a steady stream if milk in the diet made Americans everything from stronger and taller to fitter to lead the new world. order. Now athletes are even drinking whole chocolate milk instead of manufactured Gator Ade fro better on field performance. There is also the idea of sexy milk made made famous by Ms Neelman as she milks her cows. She and fresh milk show off what everyone has always thought milk to be fresh and pure.
Is dairy milk the new drink of choice? Possibly, Yet drink it not for its' popularity but for its'; benefits. It 's just a good and tasty glass of nutrition.
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