why do they poison our milk with Polysorbate 80?
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i am too poor to buy a summerhill/meyenberg goats milk everyday. what brand of regular cows milk does not contain this shit “polysorbate 80”? i looked at 3 grocery stores and all the whole milks are labeled “vitamin d milk” not a single milk under $4 without added vitamin D.
TKD
breakfast for dinner enjoyer
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does costco milk have this? has anyone emailed them?
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@Chud In the US, only low-fat milk is required to have Vit A, so whole milk is less likely to have it than low fat. Costco organic 1% seems to agree with my stomach, but I have not actually called them to ask what emulsifiers it may contain.
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Just find a local farm and support them. Stop being a lazy cunt.
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It makes you drink more. They did this experiment with the Maasai in 1974:
The initial observation that cow's milk may actually be hypocholesteremic in humans was made by Mann and Spoerry (26) in 1974. These investigators studied a group of Maasai tribesman in Africa since the Maasai male seems to be immune to clinical forms of coronary heart disease (CHD) (28). The Maasai possess low levels of serum cholesterol (29) and a low incidence of clinical coronary disease despite a diet rich in mUk and meat which is alleged to be a factor in CHD of western man. While investigating this paradox, Mann and Spoerry (26) serendipitously discovered that consumption of large quantities of fermented milk by the Maasai actually lowered their serum cholesterol values and overwhelmed the hypercholesteremic action of a surfactant added to the milk. At the time, these workers were examining a hypothesis that surfactant food additives (in the diet of Westerners) would facilitate absorption of cholesterol from the gut resulting in hypercholesteremia. Since the Maasai normally did not consume surfactants in the diet and since they possessed a normally low serum cholesterol value, they were selected as subjects to test this hypothesis
A group of 24 Maasai males aged 16 to 23 years was divided randomly into two groups of 12. One group received fermented milk containing an olive oil placebo (control) whereas the "treatment" group received Tween 20 in the fermented milk. The men were given their usual diet of fermented milk for 6 days per week and meat on the 7th. The cow's milk (produced by European breeds) was obtained from a local creamery as pasteurized milk without additives or homogenization. It was seeded with a wild culture of Lactobacillus and after 2-3 days in a 65-70 F room, it was stirred to disperse the curd and the additives were incorporated. Tween 20 was added at a level of 10 mg/g fat in the "treatment" milk.
Body weights, heights, skin fold, blood pressure and blood cholesterol of the subjects were measured. Blood cholesterol was determined on treatment days -3, 0 and thereafter at 7-day intervals.
Normally, each Maasai male consumes abut 4-5 liters of fermented milk daily containing approximately 660 k cal/liter. However as this study progressed the consumption of milk increased until by treatment day 4, the 24 men were consuming 200 liters/day amounting to 8.33 liters/man/day which would furnish each subject with 5,500 kcal. Despite efforts by the investigators to restrict the caloric intake of the two groups, excessive weight gain in the subjects caused the experiment to be terminated after 3 weeks.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284618436_The_Hypocholesteremic_Effect_of_Milk_-_A_Review
Tween 20 = Polysorbate 20 ~ Polysorbate 80
All surfactants. Either in this study the abundance allowed them to drink as much as they wanted (I assume they already had abundance, having cows) or it made them hungrier.
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@Chud just buy the cheapest whole milk from Costco, you think too much.
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@anabology
wow, thank you. so ZOG just want to make me fat? i guess its not so bad then. -
Looking closer at the study it does seem that the Polysorbate increased weight gain -- control group didn't gain nearly as much weight.
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I reached out to a2 milk regarding their emulsifiers used and they said it contains tocopherol and sunflower oil. Not ideal but the amount is trivial and it's better than most brands which use P80 or propylene glycol. Not sure if a2 is available in the US but it's widely available in Canada at Safeway!
