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pasteurized milk

pasteurized milk

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Milk heated to kill harmful germs so it lasts longer
  • noun
  • /ˈpeɪstʃərˌaɪzd mɪlk/
  • US
translation icon : leche pasteurizada
  • * Use pasteurized milk and dairy products (yogurt, cheese, butter, and ice cream).
  • whole pasteurized milk
  • made from pasteurized milk

We we do produce some pasteurized milk cheeses.

Examples

  • The grown-ups drank raw milk and raw oysters; the kids had pasteurized milk and cooked oysters.

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  • Some treated foods may taste slightly different, just as pasteurized milk tastes slightly different from unpasteurized milk.

  • And Earl Grey tea with pasteurized milk.

  • We we do produce some pasteurized milk cheeses.

  • One U.S. study, published in 2007, found that kids who were exposed to animals and drank farm milk had lower rates of asthma and allergies than kids who mostly drank pasteurized milk and weren't raised on farms.

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  • We also know that kids who drink raw milk experience fewer dental caries, while juice-drinking and pasteurized milk-drinking kids have dental challenges and huge amounts of cavities (in general).

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  • Over 80 percent of the cheese consumed today in France is made entirely from pasteurized milk.

  • We have confidence in the safety of pasteurized milk for several reasons.

How Sterile

pasteurized milk
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raw milk
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Surface Forms

Morphology

pasteurized + milk

The meaning 'milk that has been heated to kill germs' is directly and compositionally derived from 'pasteurized' (heated to prevent spoilage) + 'milk' (the liquid), so the overall sense follows immediately from the constituents. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically paralleled term (e.g., Spanish 'pasteurizado', French 'pasteurisé'), making it accessible to a B1 learner who knows both words.

Etymology

Pasteurized milk is named after the scientist Louis Pasteur, who discovered that gently heating liquids could kill harmful germs. That's why pasteurized milk means milk that has been treated with heat to make it 'safer' and 'last longer'.