Date:   6/30/2006 10:47:34 AM ( 18 y ago)
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A few points.

Most people that have trouble with milk stems from their inability to produce lactase, and enzyme that breaks down Lactose. One of the components in milk is a Sugar called lactose. Lactase breaks down the Lactose into Glucose and Galactose it passes from the stomach to the intestine and colon where the bacteria start fermenting it, causing the bloating (from CO2 produced by bacteria), loose stools associated with this condition. The inability to produce lactase has a strong genetic components with some particular ethinic groups being 100 % lactase deficient.
Acidity in the stool in one way to diagnose this condition.

Other people just react to the bovine protein markers and have a true allergy. Using lactase will not alleviate the symptoms. This reaction is similar to any other allergy like allergies to bee sting, or peanuts, or ragweed. A type I hypersensitivity disorder.

We should also not that milk curdles because of bacteria, and the resultant acidity.

The levels of enzymes in milk is also relatively low. In most cases enzymes occur on very small quantities, not just in milk.The 3 most important enzymes in milk are:

* lipoprotein lipase - it breaks down fat into glycerol and fatty acids
* plasmin - splits proteins, specifically ß -casein and alpha(s2)-casein
* alkaline phosphatase - splits phosporic acid esters into phosphoric acid and alcohols - this is the only enzyme destroyed by pausterizaton

Milk fat is not broken down by the endogenous lipase because milk fat is protected by native Fat Globule Membranes.

Pausterization also does not significantly change the nutrient profile of milk except in one regard, vitamin C. Vitamin C is a heat labile molecule that is partially destroyed in pasteurization - a 20% drop. The prefered method of pasterization is called High Temperature Short Time (HTST) 161F/71C for 15 seconds.

http://www.specialtyfood.com/do/news/ViewNewsArticle?id=1841

Even if pausterization did not destroys milk enzymes they would still be useless to us because the high acidity of the stocmach would quickly inactivate these proteins (enzymes are catalytic proteins). This why claims about enzymes in food and their benefits are false. They are immediately inactivated in the stomach.


 

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