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Wellness Influencers Swear By Raw Milk – So Why Do Experts Say Never To Drink It?

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21.07.2025

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Drinking animal milk is pretty wild when you think about it – not only did a human have to look at an udder and think, “I need in on that,” but we also started drinking the stuff before our bodies were even able to digest it.

Nonetheless, dairy has been in our diets for thousands of years.

And for much of that time, the milk we drank was “raw” – which basically means unpasteurised.

Pasteurisation, originally invented by French scientist Louis Pasteur in the 1860s, was originally used for wine and beer. It wasn’t until 1886 that agricultural chemist Frans von Soxhlet suggested using the germ-killing heat treatment on milk, too.

But though the process has saved millions of lives, some, like food writer (and son of the Queen) Tom Parker-Bowles argue that raw milk is the only one which offers the “full complement of vitamins, minerals and natural digestive enzymes, as well as providing the most lusciously creamy mouthful of pure dairy delight”.

TikTokers have also claimed raw milk is good for your........

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