(Alex Rast) wrote in message ...
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(Alex Rast) wrote in message
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at Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:53:12 GMT in de56271e.0310091253.a8aef61
@posting.google.com, (Akilesh Ayyar) wrote :

I bought some organic skim milk recently, supposed to expire November
7. I sampled a little bit and it tasted funny.

I can't describe it any better than to say it had a kind of
"high-pitched sweetness,"...

November 7 = Ultra-Pasteurized....

UP and UHT are two different things. When I get home, I'll pull up
the reference from pubmed.

I agree. UHT is even worse. But UP is already bad, and still subjected to
very high temperatures, over 200F. UHT is the stuff that's so sterile you
can store it at room temperature.


While not to US consumer tastes,for some of us that don't live in the
US, UHT is a logical option. We buy milk in one liter boxes that can
be stored at room temperature. Refrigerate after opening. If the power
goes out and the milk spoils, its a liter or less that spoils, not a
gallon. If the power fails and the market or bodega doesn't have a
generator, the UHT milk doesn't spoil. I've tried the regular, in
jugs, refrigerated stuff here and about every third or fourth jug had
spoiled due to lack of refrigeration somewhere along the way. Same
with the refrigerated, plastic liter bags of milk. I bought the
refrigerated, cardboard box stuff also, same thing. I opened a single
serving container, stuck in a straw, took a drink and spit it out all
over the restaurant table I was sitting at. It had soured. Remember,
not everyone reading this newgroup lives in the US or Europe or even
in parts of those areas where power supply is problem free.

Sandi