Dairy cows can be health food factories

摘要

Farmers have an opportunity to confer additional health benefits to dairy products with on-farm manipulation of milk quality. At the recent Grasslands of Southern Australia conference, Josie Ferrari explained how. For many years the cholesterol and fatty acid profiles of dairy products have been considered deleterious to human health. However, there is now mounting evidence that many of these messages were over-simplified and that some of the fatty acids found in animal products, particularly those of ruminant origin, may have health benefits.