Article: Milk's EMERGING HEALTH INGREDIENTS -- May 2010
The search for bioactive food ingredients is a major activity of scientists seeking to improve diet and human health. The search is challenging. Which food ingredients make healthy people healthier? Upon what targets should such ingredients work? What mechanisms act to protect people?
A group of researchers at the University of California, Davis (UCD), have taken a rather bold step and are asking the question: “What should we eat?” Milk emerged from evolution, as a remarkable biofluid to nourish mammalian infants. The scientists have taken milk apart, from the genes that make it to the molecules it contains to the biochemical effects it produces--and to the health benefits that result. What evolution came up with is proving to be astonishing and a practical blueprint for food research.