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Nutritional Role of Milk Fatty Acids to Human Health and its Functional and Biochemical Properties


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1 Dairy Cattle Nutrition Division, National Dairy Research Institute, KARNAL (HARYANA), India
2 Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Arawali Veterinary College, Bajor, SIKAR (RAJASTHAN), India
     

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Ruminant milk fat is an important component of the human diet, particularly bovine milk fat which makes the 75 per cent of total consumption of fat from ruminant animals. All ruminant milk contains lipids but the concentration varies according to species from 2 to 8 per cent (Belitz and Grosh, 1999). The principle function of dietary lipid is to serve as a source of energy for the neonate and the fat content in milk largely reflect the energy requirements of the species, e.g. land animals indigenous to cold environment and marine mammals secrete high levels of lipids in their milk, apart from being main source of energy, milk lipids serve as a source of essential fatty acids (i.e. fatty acids which cannot be synthesized by higher animals, especially linoleic acid (C 18:2) and fat soluble vitamin (A, D, E, K); also for the flavour and rheological properties of dairy products and foods in which they are used.

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Fatty Acid, Human Health, Milk, Nutrition.
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Authors

Saroj
Dairy Cattle Nutrition Division, National Dairy Research Institute, KARNAL (HARYANA), India
Subha Ganguly
Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Arawali Veterinary College, Bajor, SIKAR (RAJASTHAN), India

Abstract


Ruminant milk fat is an important component of the human diet, particularly bovine milk fat which makes the 75 per cent of total consumption of fat from ruminant animals. All ruminant milk contains lipids but the concentration varies according to species from 2 to 8 per cent (Belitz and Grosh, 1999). The principle function of dietary lipid is to serve as a source of energy for the neonate and the fat content in milk largely reflect the energy requirements of the species, e.g. land animals indigenous to cold environment and marine mammals secrete high levels of lipids in their milk, apart from being main source of energy, milk lipids serve as a source of essential fatty acids (i.e. fatty acids which cannot be synthesized by higher animals, especially linoleic acid (C 18:2) and fat soluble vitamin (A, D, E, K); also for the flavour and rheological properties of dairy products and foods in which they are used.

Keywords


Fatty Acid, Human Health, Milk, Nutrition.

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