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Milk River is nature ’s buffet for babies , providing all the aliment a mammalian infant needs for early development outside the womb . Cow ’s milk provides a chain of nutrients for humans , although intolerance to lactose — a hard - to - digest lolly — is a rough-cut affliction .

Milk consists of about 5 percent lactose , 3.7 pct fats and 3.5 pct proteins . Ca - robust casein paint is by far the most common protein , and it is the combination of casein and certain fat that give bovine juice its color .

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The coloration Caucasian is nature ’s clear buffet , in that it results from all the wavelengths of seeable illumination being reflected into the eye . Casein and certain fats reflect broad image of wavelengths , causingmilkto appear white .

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