Health

Cow milk vs. alternative milk: Which one's right for you?

With a wide variety of dairy and nondairy milks on the market, consumers have endless options when it comes to choosing milk to quench their thirst, make their morning coffee smooth and velvety or enhance their cereal and ...

Immunology

Food allergy treatment loses efficacy with time

(HealthDay)—Many children who are initially successfully treated for allergy to cow's milk by oral immunotherapy lose tolerance several years later, according to a letter to the editor published online June 27 in the Journal ...

Health

Why plant-based 'milks' are rising to the top

If you've been to any supermarket recently, you would've noticed the shelf space dedicated to milk alternatives such as oat, soy, almond and rice is expanding. Though they're not strictly speaking "milk," these plant-based ...

Medical research

Protein-trapped sugar compounds nourish infant gut microbes

UC Davis researchers have shown that an enzyme produced by beneficial microbes in babies' intestines is able to harvest specific sugar compounds from human breast-milk and cow's milk. The discovery identifies those sugars—rather ...

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