Once upon a time, regular milk was defined as milk with cream at the top. That changed with one major industrial process.

To improve its shelf-life, milk undergoes a homogenization process. This process produces fat globules of a uniform, small size. During the homogenization process the size range of the fat globules is ...

Before 1965, when whole milk was still available through home delivery, some of us can remember when about a half cup of cream floated to the top of the bottle. Folks skimmed it off for their coffee, ...

What happens when you freeze, and then thaw, milk? Visible evidence suggests that it turns into spit-up. But is that what's going on? And why would anyone care? Read on, but only if you have nothing ...

The way that we produce and consume dairy today is nothing like it's been for thousands of years. It has resulted in nutritionally inferior foods. The cows are fed differently, the milk is treated ...

The journey from raw to regular milk involves several steps in the homogenization process, each bringing you closer to the product we know as "whole milk." However, if you miss a single step or decide ...