Milk is a common drink in daily life, and it is rich in nutrients, containing a variety of trace elements and minerals. Drinking milk in the morning can replace the nutritional energy of breakfast and is deeply loved by everyone. Milk is rich in protein, which can increase satiety, and drinking milk will not cause obesity.

The calorie content of 100g of low-fat milk is between 50-80 calories, while 100g of rice has between 110-150 calories. You can find that milk is not a high-calorie food. On the contrary, milk is rich in nutrients and is very comprehensive, providing us with high-quality protein, calcium, and other important trace elements. Therefore, dairy products are good for weight loss.

Drinking milk before going to bed not only promotes the absorption of calcium (the best time for calcium digestion and absorption is at night), promotes sleep (calcium has a calming effect on emotions), but also the main component of milk—protein—is not digested and absorbed quickly. It mainly undergoes digestion in the small intestine, which means that drinking milk before going to bed will not burden the energy consumption at night and will also prevent you from feeling very hungry when you wake up the next morning.

Best time to drink milk

Milk is rich in nutrients such as protein and calcium and is a natural food that is easy to absorb. With more and more people drinking milk, it is all the more important to pay attention to the taboos of drinking milk and follow the advice of nutrition experts as best as possible.

There are three ‘best times’ in a day when drinking milk is most effective: the energy supply of breakfast accounts for 25% to 30% of the total energy demand of the human body. Drinking a glass of milk with breakfast, along with eggs or bread, can provide adequate nutrition; drinking milk around 4 pm is better before dinner; drinking a glass of milk before going to bed can help sleep, and adding a few cookies while drinking milk can be even better.

Taboos of drinking milk

It is not advisable to eat oranges one hour before or after drinking milk. Because once the protein in milk meets the citric acid in oranges, it will coagulate, affecting the digestion and absorption of milk. It is also not advisable to eat other acidic fruits during this period.

80% of the protein in milk is casein. When the pH of milk is below 4.6, a large amount of casein will coagulate and precipitate, making it difficult to digest and absorb. In severe cases, it may even lead to indigestion or diarrhea. Therefore, it is not advisable to add acidic drinks such as fruit juice to milk.

The lysine in milk can react with fructose under heating conditions to form toxic fructosyl lysine, which is harmful to the human body. Do not add sugar to fresh milk when boiling, and it’s not too late to add sugar after the milk has cooled down a bit.