Authors : Shweta Tripathi & Nandita Sarkar
Page Nos : 235-243
Description :
Milk composition is economically important to milk producers and processors and nutritionally important to consumers. It has been known for years that variations in milk composition occur .The aim of the study was to determine the quality of milk produced and marketed in Jabalpur town of Madhya Pradesh, India. A total sixty sample of raw cow’s milk were collected from dairy owners from different regions of Jabalpur. All samples were collected through random sampling method. SPSS. 16 version was used to calculate the mean of the samples. This study showed the means of protein, fat, solid but not fat and lactose content was; 3.30±.225 %, 4.41± 1.30 %, 9.084 ± 1.13 %, 4.81±.43 % respectively. Therefore, it was concluded that the nutritional composition of the cow milk was within recommended limit.
