Anne Landers, an American journalist once said that: “I don’t believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.”
Maybe, as a mature individual, I have realized that there are kinds of milk that won’t be acceptable to my system especially if it will upset my stomach. But when I tried the bottled milk from Pinkie’s Farm—it gave me a better appreciation of what non-ultrahigh temperature (NUHT) milk is all about and I loved it.
Are the milk pasteurized or homogenized?
Pinkie’s Farm milk are pasteurized but not homogenized. Pasteurization is the process of heating milk up and then quickly cooling it down to eliminate certain bacteria. While homogenization isn’t meant for safety, but for consistency and taste.
The first time I laid my eyes on the bottled milk, I must say that it was not just inviting, but it was appealing to me because it clearly presented to me how milk is stored in a bottle as opposed to the ones placed in a plastic or cardboard container, which could be unhealthy.
Pinkie’s Farm milk is a good choice to grab milk since it is taken straight from its farm. Its farm is FDA certified and are stored in bottles that are BPA-free.
BPA stands for Bisphenol A, 2, 2 bis (4 heydroxyphenyl) propane, an organic chemical substance with potentially harmful properties [1,2] As antioxidant ingredient. It (BPA) is commonly used in polycarbonate plastics (PC), one of the most physically resistant polymers to environmental stress.
Apart from milk, Pinkie’s Farm has yogurts, too. Just like any other yogurts, it starts out with live culture. That is how yogurt is made: live and active cultures are introduced to pasteurized milk and convert the milk to yogurt via fermentation.
To extend the shelf life of some yogurts, reheating the fermented milk will kill off the live culture. Thus, at Pinkie’s Farm they do not perform this because these live cultures are beneficial to its drinkers.
My favorites among Pinkie’s Farm milk are—Low Fat Milk (its 1 Liter is at Php240; while its 200 ml is at Php75) and the Yogurt with Low Fat and Unsweetened (its 1 kg is at Php250 while its 200 g is at Php85).
Both products have not given me stomach upset and they worked well with me. I would truly recommend them to those who love milk and yogurts.
Normally, the milk has a shelf-life of five to six days only and yogurts have longer shelf-life for three weeks.
To know more about Pinkie’s Farm, visit its official website.
