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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Raw Milk Safety / How to Drink Raw Milk Even When Unsure of Your Source

How to Drink Raw Milk Even When Unsure of Your Source

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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One of the most exciting things that has happened with this blog over the past year is a large increase in the international readership. This is exciting to me as they bring a unique perspective to the discussion, contribute suggestions and ask questions that those of us living in the United States have perhaps never considered before.

One question that I’ve been getting recently, particularly from readers in India and Eastern Europe, is how to consume raw dairy safely when the cleanliness of the source is questionable.

People in these countries typically boil their raw milk first before drinking.  However, the information they were reading on this blog and elsewhere about the health benefits of raw milk had prompted them to reconsider this practice.  They wanted to start consuming fresh dairy in order to enjoy the significantly improved nutritional profile of milk that has been completely unheated.

What to do in this situation?  I put this question to Tim Wightman, President of the Farm to Consumer Foundation and grassbased farmer extraordinaire to see what he had to say.

Three Methods for Ensuring Raw Milk Quality

If you are unsure of your raw milk source or are using it for the first time and are not yet 100% comfortable with your decision, try one or all of these methods to set your mind at ease:

  • Buy only small amounts of raw milk at a time and use up within one to three days. Bacteria that cause food borne illness with the exception of Campylobactor require more than a few days to develop in the quantities necessary to cause human illness.
  • Make homemade (unheated) kefir with the raw milk before consuming.   If the milk is of questionable quality, the kefir won’t set right and the end result will be whey and milk solids or a very runny kefir that won’t be desirable for consumption.
  • Probably the best way to drink raw milk and have peace of mind even if you are not completely sure of the cleanliness of your source is to freeze the milk for two weeks first before thawing and then drinking.  Food or drink frozen for that period of time is considered safe to consume.  As a bonus, raw milk that is frozen and thawed that ends up quite close to its original form with only just a few very small milk solids floating around is a good indication of quality milk.
By employing one or all of these three methods, people living in any any part of the world should be able to consume raw dairy safely even if the farm does not always have access to modern, stainless steel equipment and instant refrigeration like most small farms in the United States enjoy.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Joe

    Feb 6, 2023 at 7:26 pm

    Would you drink conventional grain fed non organic raw milk if this is the only one you can find?

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  2. Naz

    Jun 17, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    Hi if there’s was E. coli or harmfulness in the milk will freezing it kill it ?

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    • Sarah

      Jun 17, 2018 at 9:05 pm

      No, freezing does not kill e coli.

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