What process does milk go though before appearing in stores?

Question

What process does milk go though before appearing in stores?

Answer 1

pasteurization, homogenization and packaging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk

Answer 2

try raw milk. it goes straight from the cow to the bottle. uummm tasty!!

Answer 3

I believe its skimed to the required level (depends on order type), its also taken from the cow and pasturized and filtered.

Answer 4

It's filtered, to get out any stray pieces of protein.

The fat in the milk, called cream, rises to the top, and half-fat milk has some of this skimmed off, literally just spooned off the top. Skimmed milk has all of the cream skimmed off, leaving low-fat milk behind.

Commonly these days milk is also homogenised, which means making it the same all the way through. It is shoved through a very narrow tube at a high speed, which breaks up the fat globules that would normally float to the top and make cream. Instead, they stay small and spread through the milk. This happens after skimming, for obvious reasons that you can't skim homogenised milk.

Then it's usually pasteurised, which means it's heated up to 70 celsius for a short time, to kill bacteria. UHT milk is heated up much hotter for a very short time.

After this, it makes its way to the stores.

Answer 5

They force pregnancy on the cow so she produces milk. Then pump hormones into her to increase the production.

I don't drink it.

Answer 6

Pasteurization to sterilize it;Im pretty sure someone at answers is using police tech to slow my answers and compress theirs be cause Ive been seeing this happen for days now,where no ones answered ,when I do 3 or 4 jump ahead of me,& with some of my answers/R U Rigging Answers,People????

Answer 7

Homogenization and pasteurization. The former keeps the solids in suspension so that the cream does not float to the top. The latter kills off germs and bacteria that will spoil the milk and render it unfit to drink.

Answer 8

pasturization

Answer 9

pasteurization

homogenization

packaging

delivery