Milk, a complex source of nourishment
 

Milk is an extremely nourishing liquid with an almost 90% water content that also contains almost all the nutrients that we need throughout the various stages of life: the water hydrates our bodies, the proteins and mineral salts (calcium, phosphorus, etc.) are the building blocks of growth, the carbohydrates and lipids provide energy and the vitamins help to protect us.

 

 

An energy-giving liquid
 

One litre of full fat milk provides the organism with more than 650 calories. Milk sugar (lactose) gives energy that is immediately available to the body; lipids, with 64% of saturated fatty acids and 36% of unsaturated fatty acids (mainly monounsaturated), in addition to the energy that they provide, also play an important structural role: they are the major components of our cellular membranes, particularly in the nervous system.

Highly nutritional proteins
 

Milk proteins contain all the amino acids that are indispensable to life (those that the body cannot create and is obliged to obtain from food).
They have a higher nutritional value than that found in vegetal proteins, which lack one or more indispensable amino acids.

 

 

An irreplaceable source of calcium
 

100g of milk contains 120mg of calcium, i.e. a particularly high calcium content compared to other foods (meat 10mg/100g, fish 27mg/100g, vegetables 35mg/100g). Therefore a bowlful of milk provides a third of the recommended daily allowance of calcium for an adult. Another advantage is that the calcium found in dairy products is particularly easy for the body to absorb due to the presence of the other components found in milk, namely the proteins and the lactose.
Milk also contains other mineral salts such as phosphorus, magnesium, sodium and numerous trace elements.



An essential vitamin boost
 

Milk contains a great variety of vitamins, some of which dissolve in the fat and others in the water molecules. Milk is particularly rich in vitamin A, which is important for healthy vision, for the skin’s natural defences and for the body’s resistance to infection. It is also rich in B group vitamins, particularly B2 and B12. It does provide other vitamins (C, D, E, K, PP), but in lower quantities or as trace elements.