I believe this question from the trivia quiz at the ILCA luncheon needs to
be thrown out, according to someone who makes cheese in Tibet from yaks'
milk. When I post the answers to my quiz at work my answer to this question
will be "white". Thanks, Pat Young, for steering me to Jonathan White (pun
intended).
Linda Anderegg, RNC, IBCLC, RLC in Chicago
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From: Jonathan & Nina White, Cheesemakers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:06 PM
To: Linda Anderegg
Subject: Re: color of yaks' milk
Linda Anderegg wrote:
Dear Jonathan,
I'm a Lactation Consultant (for humans, not yaks) in Chicago. We had our
annual international conference in Chicago last month and we had a trivia
quiz at lunch. The question that started the most buzzing was "What color
is yak's milk?" I am a very logical person so assumed it was a trick
question and said "white". The answer they gave was "pink" and many people
knew the answer. As this is World Breastfeeding Week, I like to do
something to get people talking so I made a little trivia quiz for my staff
and used that question as the tie breaker. I posted my quiz on Lactnet (a
list serve for LCs) to get the opinion of the 3000 LCs on the list. Pat
Young in New Jersey told me that she googled and yes, indeed yak's milk is
pink. Then she said she got an email from a yak breeder (or grower as she
put it, I assume it was you) who said that yaks' milk is white, not pink,
and that the pink rumor got started by the Trivial Pursuit game. So I did a
google search and found these answers: Yaks' milk is pink, white, pink
because of blood in it, golden yellow due to its high fat content (I assume
they're describing yak colostrum instead) and creamy white. Do you know the
correct answer? Human milk can be yellow, clear or orange (colostral), pink
or rusty looking (bloody in the first week), white or bluish (mature), or a
variety of color tinges depending on diet and food coloring additives. Is
this why there are different answers to the question, "What color is yaks'
milk?" If so, I want to find out what the normal color of mature yaks' milk
is. I'm sure they eat pretty much the same diet every day. I did find out
on my google search though that they are milked at varying frequencies
throughout the year for some reason. But it sounded like the calves were
still nursing then so I don't think that should affect the color either.
Wow! How complicated a simple trivia question got!! Please help if you
can.
Linda Anderegg, RNC, IBCLC in Chicago
It's white to creamy-white, and only pink if the animal is mastitic.
--
Jonathan & Nina White, cheesemakers
Bobolink Dairy & Bakeyard
Vernon, NJ USA
please visit us at <http://www.cowsoutside.com>
<http://www.cowsoutside.com>
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