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    • Milk Composition - Other Properties

    Posted on July 4th, 2008 in Main by admin

    Some other physicochemical characteristics of cow milk:

    * pH of normal milk is about 6.6 - 6.9 (milk of carnivores is about 6.2; human milk is about 7.0; cow colostrum as low as 6.0; milk from cows with mastitis as high as 7.5)
    * osmolality is about 0.3 M (osmotic pressure ~ 700 kPa)
    * ionic strength is about 0.08 molar
    * water activity is about 0.993

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