OVERVIEW

 

It is becoming increasingly clear that many foods, including dairy foods,  have beneficial health effects beyond just providing for nutritional needs.  Some key concepts concerning functional dairy foods include:

 

*       There is strong evidence, based on numerous in vitro and in vivo animal studies that dairy foods provide numerous ways to protect health and prevent disease.

*       Almost all components of milk and its products possess physiological functionality beyond nutrition.

*       Many of the components of  milk have more than one physiological function.

*       Dairy foods possess a natural “cluster” of nutrients that protect health and enhance the immune system.

 

To date, limited human clinical trials have generally supported the concept that dairy foods do provide a basis for enhancement of human health There is need for additional human clinical trials to provide final evidence currently in the literature. 

 

Physiological functions and the products and components associated with these functions include the following:

 

*       Immunomodulation

*       Modified whey protein concentrate

*       Colostrum

*       Probiotics

*       Lactoferrin

*       Lactoperoxidase

*       Kappa casein glycomacropeptide

*       CLA

*       Calcium

*       Anti-microbial/ Anti-viral

*       Lactoferrin/lactoferricin

*       Lactoperoxidase

*       Lactalbumin

*       Casein glycomacropeptide

*       Microbial toxin binding

*       Whey protein concentrate

*       Beta-lactoglobulin

*       Alpha-lactalbumin

*       Casein glycomacropeptide

*       Protection from some cancers   

*       Whey protein concentrate

*       Lactoferrin

*       Alpha-lactalbumin

*       Peptides

*       Sphingolipids

*       Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)

*       Butyric acid

*       Protection from hypertension

*       Immune whey protein concentrate

*       Whey protein concentrate

*       Peptides

*       Anti-inflammatory

*       Peptides

*       Colostrums

*       Immune milk

*       Anti-thrombotic  activity

*       Lactoferrin

*       Peptides

*       Reduction in cholesterol levels

*       Whey protein concentrates

*       Whey Protein isolates

*       Stearic acid

*       Opioid like activity

*       Peptides

*       Prebiotics (stimulating growth of Bifidobacteria)

*       Casein glycomacropeptide

*       Oligosaccharides

*       Amino sugars

*       Maintaining a healthy gut

*       Probiotics 

*       Anti-oxidative effects

*       Whey protein concentrates/isolates

*       Lactoferrin

*       Bovine serum albumin

*       Vitamin C

 

 

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