I’m sharing with you this information so you won’t have to pay for it like me. The other day I needed to go to the grocery store for milk. [There is nothing quite like a bowl of cereal for breakfast...or lunch. OR dinner for that matter
. Oh the college days]. I was complaining to my coworker how I could never finish the milk I had in the fridge before the expiration date. Then she suggested that I get Organic milk because it has a longer shelf life. I thought she was crazy. Organic Milk and “regular” milk should have the same shelf life right? RIGHT? So we made a bet…and I was wrong. [Lunch is one me]
It turns out that Organic Milk has a considerably longer shelf life than regular milk. Why you ask? it has to do wit the way the milk is pasteurized. [Pasteurized? You know? Where they heat it up quickly to kill off all the bad germs and such]. “Normal” Milk is subjected to this thing called HTST or Hight Temperature Short Time. [ohhh...so clever!]. So its basically heated to about 73 degrees C for 30 or so seconds. Organic milk on the other hand is pasteurized using a process called UHT…or Ultra High Temperature. [Remember kiddies, anything with Ultra in its name...means its is immediately better and 100x cooler.] Normal for UHT, the milk is heated to around 130 degrees C for 2-3 seconds. Why does organic milk need such a high temperature? Because your cows aren’t constantly being shot up with anti-biotics and meds to keep them healthy…hence this higher temperature is needed to kill all the bacteria.
And since the higher temperature kills off the bacteria…milk doesn’t go bad as fast. And it is said the milk taste a bit sweeter as well. I’ll let you know =). Cool huh?
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