Home > Journals > Journal of Animal Feed Science and Technology

Journal of Animal Feed Science and Technology

Submit your article Read this Journals View all journals
Full Text (PDF)
Original Article

Superiority of A2 Milk Over A1 Milk: A Boon for Human Health

Meena Goswami , Sanjay Singh1 , Vikas Pathak2 , Meena Goswami3 , Sanjay Kumar Bharti4 , Renu Kumari5Shubha Singh6

Author Information

Licence:



Journal of Animal Feed Science and Technology 6(2):p 67-71, July-December 2018. | DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jafst.2321.1628.6218.3

How Cite This Article:

Timeline

Received : N/A         Accepted : N/A          Published : N/A

Abstract

 Milk is a complete food as it contains all essential micro-nutrients needed for growth and development of human health as well as for neonate animals. However, milk derivative peptides may cause deleterious effect on human health by elevating risk for type I diabetes (DM-1), coronary heart disease (CHD), schizophrenia and autism. The higher occurrences of these diseases have relationship with consumption of variants A1, B and C beta–casein from cow’s milk. The production of BCM-7 is more in A1 milk than A2 milk and the difference is basically at 67th position of the beta casein chain. Due to presence of histidine at amino acid at 67th position, digestion of A1 β-casein milk releases a 7 amino acid bioactive peptide called β-casomorphin 7 (BCM-7) in small intestine, while proline in A2 milk at 67th position prevents splitting at this particular site. So propensity is now towards consumption of A2 milk. It is a matter of great concern for the health of people in India.

Keywords: A1 Milk; A2 Milk, Bcm-7; Proline Amino Acid; Histidine Amino Acid.

References

No records found.


About this article

Cite this article

Licence:



Received Accepted Published
N/A N/A N/A
DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jafst.2321.1628.6218.3

Keywords


Article Level Metrics

Last Updated

Tuesday 07 July 2026, 09:37:50 (IST)

376

Accesses

1
56
00

Citations


NA
NA
NA

Download citation


Article Keywords

Keyword Highlighting

Highlight selected keywords in the article text.


Timeline

Received N/A
Accepted N/A
Published N/A

licence




Access this article

Reprint Order Form
Buy this Article
Institutional Subscriptions

Share