What is the difference between business milk used in cafes and beverage stores and commercially available milk? Experts say this

The food you should know . Many coffee shops and beverage stores use fresh milk "business milk". "Business milk" is not fresh milk, but differences are caused by factors such as commercial use of beverage matching and cost consid...


The food you should know

. Many coffee shops and beverage stores use fresh milk "business milk". "Business milk" is not fresh milk, but differences are caused by factors such as commercial use of beverage matching and cost considerations.

When walking into cafes and beverage stores, many consumers feel that the ingredients are not "fresh milk", but they are not. Business milk is pure only a source of dairy products used in business channels such as hand-knocking and locking coffee shops. Therefore, whether it is fresh milk, long-lasting milk, reinforcing milk (reinforced milk or milk powder), it can be called "business milk". However, because the demand for pure drink milk is not the same as that used in business, the former must consider consumer needs, brand packaging, and access locations, while the latter must consider the matching with drinks, the purchase cost of the operator, and the stability of the supply. Therefore, dairy products other than fresh milk may also be used, among which imported ice tiled milk is the largest source of milk for Taiwanese locked coffee operators. For business milk, manufacturers have the following three major usage considerations.

1. Flavor: Adding "milk fat" will make the milk foam more fragrant, and adding "casein" will make the milk foam last longer

First, considering the taste of the drink, some "business milk" will add different ingredients to the dairy products to enhance the taste. Taking Guangquan, a dairy manufacturer that serves many restaurants, as an example, its business milk line has the "coffee milk" labeled "add functional milk" to "add functional milk protein". Chen Mingru, professor of the Department of Animal Science and Technology at Taiwan University, analyzed that the two proteins in milk are watery whey protein and hydrophobic casein (ratio 2:8). The latter maintains the air feeling of bubbles after the milk is heated and forced into the bulb. Therefore, adding "casein" can extend the soaking time of milk soaking and improve the foaming performance, which will be of great help to coffee drinks such as iron and cappuccino. The higher the "milk fat", the higher the milk fat, it can enhance the milk aroma. Therefore, many businesses use milk to adjust the fat. For example, Taiwan's major coffee suppliers open the "School Special Milk" with a fat content of 4.0% in food milk, the ingredients are water, milk, and full-fat milk. Huang Liang, chairman of Louisa, the largest coffee brand in Taiwan, described that milk with a fatty milk of about 3.8 to 4% milk fat, can produce "spicy feather-like" fine milk foam.

2. Cost: The imported transportation fee for solid dairy products is lower

In addition, the commonly heard "full-tonified whole milk" in the milk ingredients for business refers to the "ice brick milk" imported from Australia's cold pot to Taiwan. It is used to kill bacteria and reduce pressure to remove moisture. After the decompression, the milk is quickly cooled and the content of the milk solid content is more than 40%. After turning the milk into a solid milk, the cold pot will be transported to the Taiwan, then the water is added and the water is reduced to 5 to 20 times to make it into business milk. Zhang Minling, president of Taiwan's largest importer of New Zealand dairy products, pointed out that 87% of the ingredients of milk are water, so whether it is dried into milk powder or made into ice-brick milk, it is a more efficient import model than liquid milk.

3. Constant volume: Imported ice tiled milk supplements the insufficient milk volume in China

In addition to the advantages of delivery, mobile drinks and coffee operators all pointed out that the purpose of ice tiled milk is to ensure stable and sufficient milk source. Taking the coffee from domestic supermarkets, as an example, Taiwan dairy products often need to supplement imported milk due to insufficient domestic production, especially in summer when beef has a poor appetite and reduce milk production and increase consumer demand for cold drinks. According to industry insiders, 7-ELEVEN supermarket City cafe will use about 70 kton fresh milk in summer and the dosage in winter is 50 ktons, mainly because in summer, the demand for handheld iron drinks on the outside is higher. Therefore, in addition to Ruisui fresh milk, City Cafe will use the "City Cafe special milk" in terms of the situation. The raw material "100% Australian original imported high-quality milk" is actually milk with a shelf life of 90 days. The family convenience store Let's Cafe also uses "Guangquan Let's Cafe Specialty Milk" since 2016. The ingredients are "water", "domestic milk" and "Australian imported condensed milk" (ice milk). During the "top storm" period in Taiwan in 2014, 85 degrees C said that the use of forest milk was used due to insufficient milk source. It was revealed that most coffee operators have switched to business milk. The time-honored tea beverage brand, the brand Peda Milk Tea, also attracted attention from consumers in 2017 for using Guangquan's "business-specific milk". The operators said that only by using business milk can you ensure that the milk source is sufficient.

Ice brick milk can easily cause misconduct and unclear industry profiles

Many consumers are worried about ice brick milk. Chen Mingru explained that in fact, whether it is ice brick milk and other business milk, there is no food safety or nutritional value. The problem is, but consumers think they are drinking foods made of fresh milk, and they find that the source is "depressed" and that will give rise to "feeling of the scattered milk". Huang Jian said: "Seriously, only coffee with 'fresh milk' can be called 'hard'. After all, Latte in French originally means cow milk."

Regarding the source control and supervision of ice tiled milk, dairy importers and dairy associations pointed out that the current import number of "ice tiled milk" imported from Taiwan is "other milk and emulsion oil, without sugar or other sweeteners" (0402919000), and is not independently distributed, so it is impossible to accurately grasp the import amount of ice tiled milk every year. It can be seen that neither industrialists nor ordinary people can clearly know the source and where ice brick milk comes from. In this regard, Zhang Dong, the director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Agricultural Committee, told "Food Power" that he had indeed heard of this demand and would be included in management in the future. He hoped that Taiwan's ice brick milk market would have a clearer profile in the future..

Compared with commercially available fresh milks, different brands, bacteria-killing methods, and even packaging, the business milk used in 2B must consider the matching nature with coffee and tea, purchasing costs, and whether it can be supplied safely throughout the year, while other dairy products are used.

【This article is from the Fuli Vol.26 quarterly "The Breast Wars, Who is the Winner in the Nine Arenas"]



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