Question

Which of the following food items is not a milk product?
A. Cream
B. Cheese
C. Chapathi
D. Ghee

Answer 1

Hint: Milk is the food, which exclusively sustains us during the first few months of life. Term milk is used for white color, non- animal beverages corresponding to milk in color and texture such as soymilk, almond milk, coconut milk. Milk contains 87% of water.

Complete Answer:
Products of milk are butter, cream, cheese. Butter is one of the dairy products. Butter made from fat and protein components of milk or cream. Cheese is one of the dairy products, it is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures and forms by coagulation of milk protein casein. Cream is also one of the dairy products, it is composed of a higher- fat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization.

Types of milk:
1. Untreated
2. Pasteurized
3. Homogenized
4. Sterilized
5. Ultra- high temperature
6. Evaporated
7. Condensed
8. Powdered
9. Skimmed

Nutritive value of milk:
1. Proteins- high biological value, caseinogen 80 %, lactalbumin, lactoglobulin.
2. Fats
3. Carbohydrate 5% (in form of sugar).
4. Vitamins A, D, B1, B2.
5. Minerals are calcium, phosphorus, sodium, chlorine, potassium.

- Chapati is made from wheat.

Thus, the option (C) is correct.

Note: Few types of microorganisms found in milk are streptococcus lactic, achromobacter, bacillus subtilis, coliform bacteria. The boiling point of milk is ${100.2^{\circ}C$ . Pasteurization is the process of heating to destroy harmful bacteria. In most countries, milk is pasteurized to improve the keeping quality of milk.