date:Aug 20, 2015
nal and non-nutritional physiological roles in the human diet. Milk proteins not only supply the body with amino acids necessary for the maintenance and growth of body protein, but also give rise, during food manufacture and/or food digestion, to a myriad of protein fragments and large and small peptides that have distinct biological functions.
Amino acids released during digestion have regulatory functions or act as precursors for the synthesis of key non-protein metabolites. Such compounds ar