does drinking powder (dry) milk have the same health benefits as regular milk?

Question

me and my roommate have decided to buy dry milk and we were just wondering if we get the same nutrition as from regular milk. We really are trying to keep up with our daily dose of calcium, that '3-a-day' thing so we figured this would be an easy way to do it. So we were just wondering how they compare.

Answer 1

No way.
As the above poster stated the heat milk is exposed to does all sorts of damage to the milk. As with all foods, the more processed, the more the goodness is destroyed, even to the point of being harmful. Powdered milk will have oxidised cholesterol in it. Oxidised foods are definitely off limits.

As for regular milk, yes it too has been damaged, again as stated above. There has been links shown between heart disease and milk consumption, particularly low fat milk (low fat milk has milk powder added to it). In trying to link milk to heart disease researchers have found antibodies to milk in these people. This could be due to the pasteurisation process changing the molecular structure of the proteins. In some (all?) people the body will see these proteins as a foreign body, rather than a protein to be used as a building block.
Personally I see regular milk as the lesser of two evils
Where i beg to differ with the above poster is that raw milk can be consumed your whole life. Some cultures basically live off raw milk with no health problems especially heart disease. The enzymes and bacteria in raw milk will help with the digestion process. If the raw milk is used to make cultured foods, they become easier to digest with an increase in some nutrients (B12).

Answer 2

Yes. The problem is, regular milk has been altered to the point where it is not good for you, so powdered milk falls into this same category, but worse.

The high temperatures of pasteurization process destroys all the enzymes in milk, the good bacteria, and alters the proteins. If you examine, as I have done many times in lab, the bacteria in raw milk (unpasteurized) as it compares to pasteurized milk, you will find less bacteria in the raw milk. The difference is that raw milk will allow the bacteria to grow and the pasteurized milk will not because it is dead.

They have to add vitamin D to pasteurized milk to force the calcium, that has been altered by the high heat, to be absorbed. Raw milk has the original calcium available for absorption because it has not been altered.

The problem is that after about 1 year old, people should not drink milk because it is not digested well. Only about 20% of the people in the world have the amount of lactase enzyme in their body to digest milk. Many people are lactose intolerant to varying degrees and many do not even know it. A lot of allergies, headaches, general feelings of being tired, etc. come from food allergies like milk.

Milk is just not a good source of calcium since most people drink the pasteurized type. Powdered milk is just milk with the liquid removed and this requires heat. Now you've really got a mess, but since the original milk was worthless anyway, the powdered milk can't be any worse for you.

Calcium competes with magnesium in the jejunum (upper part of the duodenum) for absorption. There is very little magnesium in milk and the condition for the absorption is acidic. Unless the stomach has enough acid, the calcium is not going to be absorbed anyway.

There are many other places to get calcium, other than milk. Many fruits and vegetables have lots of calcium that is dietary in nature. Don't run out and buy a calcium supplement with calcium carbonate or drink orange juice that contains calcium hydroxide, because this is just garbage. You can get this by eating blackboard chalk; that is calcium carbonate.

Good luck to you

Answer 3

Considering it's 8 g of protein in regular milk and 1 g in almond milk... I'd say almond milk is not as good for you... Almond milk also has more fat than skim milk from a cow... skim milk has 50% of your recommended daily calcium vs 20% in almond milk... Almond milk is not more animal friendly... milk cows NEED to be milked... it causes them great pain if they are not milked... they even walk themselves into milking stations because of this. If you don't drink skim milk from a cow then you're hurting your body and cows...

Answer 4

nope,

think about how much processing the milk had to go through to get it to that state.

anytime your processing any kind of food you are taking out nutrient's from the product. there may be a little but i can't imagine there is much... even if the packaging said there is im sure all nutrient's were taken out during the process and then chemically added back in. in that case it will be more difficult for your body to recognize and process nutrient's from altered food. any food taken out of it's natural state automatically looses what was good about it in the first place.

take supplements or get it from other forms of dairy. yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese etc...

hope this helps

Answer 5

that depends on the quality of water used to re-liquefy. try beer instead, it has good things like barley and hops.

Answer 6

natural i would think is the way to go but if you think other wise that's great too. powder that's kinda taste less.

Answer 7

noooooooooooooooooooooooo