The first prime time to drink milk is after breakfast. Breakfast accounts for 25% to 30% of the total energy demand of the human body all day. As a natural food that is easy to digest and absorb, milk contains protein, calcium, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only effectively moisten the stomach that has just experienced a night of fasting, but also provide people with sufficient energy and nutritional needs to start a day's work in high spirits.
One thing to note is that you should avoid drinking milk on an empty stomach for breakfast. Milk is liquid. If you drink it on an empty stomach, it will be excreted from your stomach quickly. Nutrients such as protein will enter the intestine if they are not fully digested, which is easy to decompose into energy consumption and easily aggravate the symptoms of lactose intolerance. Therefore, we should eat starchy food first for breakfast, such as steamed bread, bread, corn porridge, beans and so on. Drinking milk for another hour or so will help to absorb the nutrients of milk more fully.
Around 4 pm is the second prime time. At this time, people are easy to feel tired and sleepy, and need to supplement nutrition urgently. But in daily study and work, most people can't enjoy afternoon tea leisurely. At this time, the rich protein and milk fat in milk can help the body to replenish nutrition quickly, so as to return to work in high spirits.
The third prime time is half an hour before going to bed. Milk contains L tryptophan, which can make people feel tired and sleepy, and a small amount of morphine has a certain sedative and hypnotic effect; Calcium in milk can also relieve tension. In addition, after people fall asleep, the level of calcium in human blood will gradually decrease, and the milk they drank before can just supplement the loss of calcium in blood and maintain the balance of calcium in blood, so drinking milk before going to bed is beneficial to the absorption of calcium.
The last prime time for drinking milk may not be known to many people, and that is about one month after the factory date. Of course, what we are talking about here is the common normal temperature milk in supermarkets, and a few low-temperature pasteurized milk are not included. Milk stored for too long is easy to precipitate and delaminate, which not only affects the taste, but also reduces the nutritional value. Generally speaking, milk tastes best about one month after the production date.