Not many people know that milk is a seasonal product. From spring, milk yields increase, all summer they go at a high level and almost completely decline by winter. In winter, it is almost impossible to find “real”, “live” or “raw” milk, as technologists put it, on the shelves of stores. Instead, on the shelves are packages with an incomprehensible inscription "normalized milk."
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Normalized milk is milk that has undergone technological processing. So it is processed mainly for sale in stores. This procedure does not allow the milk to turn sour for a long time, due to which the product can stand on the shelves for a long time, and then in the refrigerators of customers.
Methods of processing milk
The goal of milk producers for the subsequent sale of this product in stores is to prevent it from souring for as long as possible. To achieve this effect, there are many ways to process milk. One of the cheapest and most common is sterilization. In this case, the natural product is brought to a boil many times.
Normalized milk with the necessary fat content is obtained from raw whole milk.
Also, pasteurization is used as technological processing of milk. This method is more expensive compared to the first, but it is softer. At the same time, natural milk is kept at a temperature of 65-70 ° for about half an hour.
When milk is normalized, it is brought to the necessary percentage of fat content, mixing this product either with milk of a different fat content, or with low-fat, or with cream. You can also bring this product to the required fat level by separating it - in other words, milk processing in a separator.
The powder product tastes a bit sweet, reminiscent of milk powder.
There is another way to normalize milk, in which it is restored. This is a product that is made from powder. In this case, the manufacturer simply mixes the powdered milk with water, after which it pours the resulting mixture into bags and sends it to store shelves. But only if you cannot tell the taste of powdered milk from natural milk, you won’t know which milk they sold to you.