What is the difference between Homogenized and Pasteurized milk?

Answer 1

Pasteurization is the process in which a product is heated for the purpose of killing harmful organisms (such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts) but retaining beneficial organisms.

Homogenization is a process with a different intent altogether -- to ensure a longer shelf life for milk. The process works like this: milk is forced under extreme pressure through tiny holes. This breaks up the normally large fat particles into tiny ones and forces the fat to form tiny molecular clusters, thus ensuring that the molecules do not regroup. The end result is that instead of forming a cream layer on top of the milk, the fat molecules stay suspended in the milk.

Pasteurization and homogenization are two different processes. Louis Pasteur discovered pasteurization in the mid-1800s.

Pasteurization is a compromise. If you boil a food, you can kill all bacteria and make the food sterile, but you often significantly affect the taste and nutritional value of the food. When you pasteurize a food (almost always a liquid), what you are doing is heating it to a high enough temperature to kill certain (but not all) bacteria and to disable certain enzymes, and in return you are minimizing the effects on taste as much as you can. Milk can be pasteurized by heating to 145 degrees F (62.8 degrees C) for half an hour or 163 degrees F (72.8 degrees C) for 15 seconds.

Ultra high temperature (UHT) pasteurization completely sterilizes the product. It is used to created "boxes of milk" that you see on the shelf at the grocery store. In UHT pasteurization, the temperature of the milk is raised to about 285 degrees F (141 degrees C) for one or two seconds, sterilizing the milk.

Prior to pasteurization, many diseases were transmitted through raw milk to children and adults alike. That problem has been completely eliminated.

Homogenization is more recent. If you take a gallon of fresh milk straight from a cow and allow it to sit in the refrigerator, all of the cream will completely separate, leaving you with skim milk and a layer of cream. To make "2% milk," you need the cream to stay suspended in the milk. Homogenization is the process of breaking up the fat globules in cream to such a small size that they remain suspended evenly in the milk rather than separating out and floating to the surface.

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Answer 2

Pasteurized Homogenized Milk

Answer 3

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What is the difference between Homogenized and Pasteurized milk?

Answer 4

Pasteurization heats the milk to kill bacteria; homogenization blends the milk so the butterfat content doesn't separate from the milk.

Answer 5

Homogenized means it was mixed and blended thoroughly. Pasteurized means it was heat treated to kill any unwanted bacteria that could make us sick.