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Factors Affecting The Clotting Time of Milk All about Milk... In nature, milk is a substance produced by mammals to feed their offspring. Milk contains the essentials to help the young mammal grow and develop in its first months of life. Milk contains water, solids such as fat (lipids), proteins (enzymes, caseins, whey proteins), carbohydrates (lactose) and minerals. Other constituents include vitamins, dissolved gasses and bacteria. Milk provides certain compounds, which give initial protection from bacterial disease, until the young mammal can build up its own immunity. When a mammal suckles, the milk drawn from the teat is warm and sweet, and the milk sugar (lactose) provides both encouragement to drink more and will provide energy later when needed. Colostrum or first-milk is a pre-milk fluid secreted directly after birth for up to 72 hours by nearly all mammals. It provides both immune factors and growth factors to the suckling mammal. The immune...

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