SUre will do below the asterisk line.
Um.....
I said it in response to a claim that it was impossible to microwave milk as it would be superheated every time.
Not particularly. Context counts:-)
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Dear Lailanae,
This is unscientific and anonymous nonsense opinion, not research. I dont know why anyone reads that stuff.
It is perfectly fine to heat milk in a microwave./ I do it multipletimes a day as I have my coffee in milk noit water.
Human milk is meant to be taken straight from the tap.
Anything else will degrade it in some way, depending on the handling.
Milk for babies is not meant to be cooked - by microwave or any other way.
If you cook it from frozen it will NOT cook evenly in a microwave (nor immersed in hot water).
or any other way
This is baloney. There is no such ting as a 20-53 degree microwave oven. This is the report form heating milk the conventional way - in fact ANY way.. Someone just threw it in. (The someone as usual is anonymous in these anti-microwaver "reports".)
I truly abhor such invented reports. The ACTUAL 1992 pediatrics report says this and is not human milk related even:
Pediatrics. 1992 Sep.
Microwave heating of infant formula: a dilemma resolved.
Sigman-Grant M1, Bush G, Anantheswaran R.
Abstract
Microwave heating of infant formula is a common practice despite concerns of infant scalding. Beyond the issue of physical safety, little is known about the effects on nutrient content of microwave heating of infant formula. Casein-predominant infant formula in 120- and 240-mL glass and plastic nursing bottles of varying colors were heated for 40 seconds and 60 seconds, respectively. Temperature profiling was monitored during the heatingcycle. Analysis of riboflavin and vitamin C was made prior to and after heating. Topmost portions reached a mean temperature of 44.7 +/- 1.7 degrees C and 43.0 +/- 2.4 degrees C for all types of 240-mL and 120-mL bottles, respectively. Topmost temperatures were significantly hotter than temperatures reached at other sites. Routine mixing resulted in formula temperatures which could safely be fed to infants (35.4 +/- 0.3 degrees C and 33.9 +/- 0.2 degrees C for 240-mL and 120-mL bottles, respectively). There was no significant loss of either riboflavin or vitamin C. Protocols for microwave heating are given.
There was also a 1990 study reported in Pediatrics that did mention human mik.
It explains how not to be stupid. Evidently some poeple have heated baby bottles, nipple and all. And then burned the baby with overheated boiling milk and meted rubber.
Baby bottles are not microwave cookware. Milk or formula needs to be heated in the right shape of microwave cookware, such as a small pyrex jug.
In 1984 already, Pediatrics came out with warnings about scalding babies with overheated milk.
If anyone is too stupid to make sure the baby's milk is not overheated, before stuffing it into the baby's delicate mouth, they shoud not have a baby.
Just my opinion, that.
I do recommend always reading the original research and not some hyped up anonymous reinvention of it.
In my case, if it is anonymous I do nto read it period.
I did not read much of the rest as it talks more nonsense. There is no such thing as a microwave that works at a specific temperature, such as "72 degrees" so it is not physically possible to "microwave at 72 degrees" as claimed.
Where you have a reference, I looked that up.
The actual research says:
J Am Coll Nutr. 1994 Apr;13(2):209-10.
D-aspartate and D-glutamate in microwaved versus conventionally heated milk.
Petrucelli L1, Fisher GH.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
It has been reported that microwave heating of infant formulae can isomerize and racemize amino acids in the milk proteins, causing toxicity or affecting the nutritional value of the milk formulae. Therefore, we investigated whether microwave heating vs conventional heating would produce any D- enantiomers of aspartic acid (Asp) and glutamic acid (Glu) in milk.
METHODS:
Whole and skim milk samples were heated for 10 minutes in either a microwave oven at medium power or on a hot water bath at 80 degrees C. D-Asp and D-Glu were determined by high performance liquid chromatography.
RESULTS:
Unheated (control) samples were found to contain 0.40-0.45% D-Asp and D-Glu, inherent from the original pasteurizing process. Both conventional heating and microwave heating induce < 0.25% more racemization when compared to the control samples.
CONCLUSION:
Within experimental error, there is no significant difference in the levels of these D-amino acids between the conventionally heated and microwave heated milks, thus having no significant effect on the nutritional value of the milk proteins.
This research is extremely faulty as they heated milk in a microwave at ten minutes and also in conventional way for that time. It woudl have been seriously overheated in a microwave for ten minutes and would not be a fair comparison.
Despite that, they found no difference, unlike what you claim.
Namaste,
Irene
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