Milk has three main constituents, water, protein and lipid. The lipid is present in micron sized droplets (actually micelles), which have proteins adsorbed to the surface. Homogenization reduces the size of the micelles and increases the surface area that protein can adsorb to. Protein is denser than water and lipid is less dense. Consequently, increasing the protein content of the micelles brings the average density of the micelles close to that of water. Because the micelles are about the same density as water, the micelles remain uniformly dispersed. For micelles to merge, energy is needed to change the protein surface density and to overcome steric hindrances from protein chains extending into the solution. Hence, the protein on the lipid-water interface has the effect of stabilizing the micelles.
2006-12-04 14:10:51
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answered by d/dx+d/dy+d/dz 6
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Homogenized means it is churned up (mixed) to the point that it's the same all the way through. In the olden days you'd get a bottle of milk and there would be a layer of cream that would rise to the top. That doesn't happen with homogenized milk.
2006-12-04 13:28:55
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answered by Anonymous
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Homogenized just basically means all mixed together in one. In the case of milk it means the milk is treated so that the cream won't rise to the top, instead it remains mixed up in the milk.
2006-12-04 13:27:03
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answered by teef_au 6
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Milk is pressurized to absorb the fat naturally in the milk. Otherwise it would rise to the top and form cream or butter. It is forced through a steam process to breakup and suspend the fat globules. Thus providing taste and a healthy drink.
2006-12-04 13:29:41
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answered by Anonymous
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treatment for milk that breaks the fat into tiny particles that can remain suspended in liquid rather than rising to the top as cream in untreated milk.
2006-12-04 20:27:55
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answered by sashwat 4
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ok, I reckon you gets this plenty on your existence if that's the type you act, yet you're an entire moron. Now, cow meat comes from cows. The cow would not intend us to eat its muscle tissue in the comparable way it would not intend us to drink its milk, yet we nevertheless do and that is nevertheless healthful. human beings make milk, definite this milk is especially meant for human beings, and cow's milk especially for cows, yet they are nevertheless very comparable and contain comparable proteins, fat, supplementations and different necessities, meaning cows milk remains functional and healthful for human beings. Now given which you admit human infants choose milk for his or her progression, and all of us comprehend that cows milk is incredibly comparable stuff, i don't see techniques to declare milk is undesirable from a well-being perspective. Calcium is mandatory for bones, between different issues. between the suitable supplies of calcium is dairy products. pass discern. Milk DOES create healthful bones in human beings. As for the choose argument, that is not mandatory for human beings to pass to the cinema, does that advise we could continuously not do it. once you examine it there is not any reason there to not drink milk. besides, maximum persons of the Northern eu races have the flexibility to drink and use milk on an identical time as quickly as they are adults. a techniques much less of alternative races. that means that evolution has tailored Northern Europeans (maximum human beings in high-quality condition into this type, unquestionably white human beings) a minimum of for ingesting milk into adulthood. Now,I incredibly have researched and a lot of of the web pages on the internet seem to consider me. those that don't are oftentimes affiliated with PETA in some way. i think of i comprehend who's extra probable to be right.
2016-12-13 03:02:13
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answer #6
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answered by ? 3
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They only use lesbian cows for this kind of milk to ensure that your children will be turned into homo's. Its a gay conspiracy perpetrated on god loving hetero people everywhere. Fight the power!
2006-12-04 13:28:45
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answered by Anonymous
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