Cows that originated from the Channel Islands, including the Guernsey and Jersey breeds, are universally accepted as producing the best milk in the world. Today, countries all over the world have large herds of both breeds.
Buffalo Milk
Rich in fat and solids, it has a strong flavor. A lot of people prefer buffalo milk over cow's milk.
Rice Milk
The most hypoallergenic of all the milk options, rice milk is a dairy-free milk made from boiled rice, brown rice syrup, and brown rice starch. It's also the sweetest of the milk options.
India ranks first in milk production in the world contributing 24% of global milk production.
Soya milk. An excellent source of quality vegetable protein, soya milk was originally a byproduct of making tofu. Many are further fortified with added vitamins and minerals, and nutritionally it is probably the closest to cow's milk, with a similar clean flavour.
The correct answer is Sahiwal. Sahiwal is a cattle breed and is considered one of the best milch cattle breeds in India. Originated in the Montogomery region of undivided India. It is the most promising breed that produces the highest and sweetest milk.
Finnish milk is among the cleanest milk in the world thanks to healthy cows. The superior quality of Valio milk is ensured by expert milk producers supported by first-class advisory services.
China, despite a growing interest in milk, is again near the very bottom, just above North Korea and Indonesia, where people basically don't drink milk. One last interesting tidbit is how milk consumption varies by age in a way soda and fruit juice consumption does not.
USA. The country is at number one in cows' milk production, as in India a significant portion of milk production comes from buffaloes.
Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata)
Hooded seal mothers produce the fattiest known milk. Human breastmilk has about three to five percent fat in it. But with more than 60 percent fat, hooded seal milk would rival some of the richest Häagen-Dazs ice creams out there.
Goat milk is often praised as being one of the closest to breastmilk.
With 60 percent fat, the milk of the hooded seal has the highest fat content of any milk-producing animal. But you're not likely to find hooded seal milk on your grocery store shelves. Cow, sheep and goat milk are the most common supermarket finds, and they range between 3.5 percent and 7.5 percent milk fat.
Horse and camel's milk is still a staple of some traditional Mongolian diets, along with dairy products from other animals such as goats, sheep, cows, yaks and reindeer. As people in Central Asia do today, ancient people may have fermented mare's milk – which has a high lactose content - to make alcoholic beverages.
Hippopotamus gives the milk of blue color. Blue milk, also known as Bantha milk, was a rich blue-colored milk produced by female banthas.
Pig milk is milk from pigs, and is typically consumed by piglets. It is similar in composition to cow's milk, though higher in fat and more watery. Pig milk is seldom obtained for human uses and is not considered to be a viable agricultural product.
An intriguing little detail in all this frothy commerce is that many people in China, like much of Asia, are lactose intolerant. Human children produce an enzyme that allows them to digest milk, but in much of the world, its levels taper off as they grow up.
But most people -- about 60 percent and primarily those of Asian and African descent -- stop producing lactase, the enzyme required to digest milk, as they mature. People of northern European descent, however, tend to retain the ability to produce the enzyme and drink milk throughout life.
It is thought that Asian populations have decreased amounts of lactase in adulthood compared to Caucasian populations, especially those of northern European descent.
The country with the highest per capita consumption of fluid milk in 2022 was Belarus. The average person in Belarus consumed about 114.9 kilograms of milk in that year. Ukraine came in second with approximately 113.27 kilograms of fluid milk per person.
India is the world's largest milk producer, with 22 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, China, Pakistan and Brazil.
In France, the land of Pasteur himself, milk is pasteurized using a method called “ultra-high temperature” processing, or “UHT,” that heats the liquid to above 275 degrees for a few seconds.
The Guernsey is a dairy breed, and generally is reared for that purpose only. However, the cow is usually removed from the dairy herd around ages six to eight, and marketed for beef, and other processed meats. The milk has a golden-yellow tinge due to a high content of β-carotene, a provitamin for vitamin A.
Carotene is fat soluble and responsible for the yellow colour of milk, cream, butter, ghee and other fat-rich dairy products.
An adult female that has had a calf (or two, depending on regional usage) is a cow. A young female before she has had a calf of her own and is under three years of age is called a heifer. A young female that has had only one calf is occasionally called a first-calf heifer.