Milk composition in the United Kingdom / report of an Interdepartmental Committee.
- Great Britain. Interdepartmental Committee to Consider the Composition of Milk Sold off Farms in the United Kingdom.
- Date:
- [1960]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Milk composition in the United Kingdom / report of an Interdepartmental Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![2. The water, fat and snf. of milk exist as a complex mixture of an emulsion of the fat and a colloidal dispersion of the proteins, together with milk sugar (lactose) in true solution. These major constituents are accompanied by various minerals, vitamins and other substances. Probably the majority of consumers judge the quality of milk mainly by the “cream line” and the colour of the cream, both connected with the fatty fraction of milk; but with the exception of vitamin A the more important milk nutrients listed above are contained in the s.nf. However, a high content of fat tends to be associated with 1a high content of s.nf., though, as pointed out in Panel Report 2, the correlation is not strong. 3. Table II gives the intakes of protein, calcium and riboflavin from all sources, expressed as percentages of the allowances recommended by the British Medical Association’s Committee on Nutrition (1950). These allow a margin lof safety above requirements, but the percentages reported are averages for groups of families and give no indication of the scatter of individual values around the mean, nor do they take account of inequita- bility of distribution within the family in relation to physiological needs. It will be seen that, with respect to these allowances, there are on average deficits of protein and calcium, and to a much lesser extent of riboflavin, in the calculated diets of families with four or more children or including adolescents. Over the years, too, there has been a trend towards a diminished intake of these nutrients. TABLE If National diet and average diet of large families Comparison of protein, calcium and riboflavin content of the diet with allowances based on the British Medical Association's recommendations. (Data from reports of the National Food Survey, 1952 to 1958) | Households with one male and Average diet of one female adult and Nutrient Year all households —§ |_———-_---— surveyed Four or more Adolescents children and children Per cent. of | the Recommended |Allowances Protein....3.: ae 1952 104 95 90 1953 105 93 89 1954 103 87 86 1955 103 87 86 1956 102 87 84 1957 100 85 82 1958 100 85 84 Calciufa --... _ 1952 108 90 94 1953 108 87 92 1954 107 85 91 1955 108 85 9] 1956 107 85 91 1957 106 85 89 1958 107 84 92 Riboflavin oe tose 109 104 96 1953 110 101 95 1954 109 100 94 1955 108 96 92 1956 109 98 94 1957 109 101 95 1958 108 98 95](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32177483_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
