How to Use milk fat in a Sentence

milk fat

noun
  • Less milk fat produced a creamy sauce with a light cheddar flavor.
    — cleveland, 14 July 2021
  • Warming the milk and butter up first helps to avoid any milk fat white spots on top of your decadent chocolate cake.
    — Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Structural changes of bovine milk fat globules during in vitro digestion.
    — Vince C Reyes, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2013
  • For example, making ice cream with good milk (the source of milk fat and milk solids) is a very important, explained Stelick.
    — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 2 May 2018
  • Since cold temperatures can cause milk fat to separate while being stored, warming can help to mix it back together.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
  • As luck, or science, would have it, milk fat is absorbed into ancient pottery and preserved at a remarkable level.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2022
  • To improve the nation’s semi-frozen milk fat infrastructure, iFixit has done two things.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Invented in the 1930s, soft serve contains less milk fat and more air than traditional ice cream.
    — Larrisa Beth Turner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • To be sure, a glass of shubat of any type, with its sour tang and mysterious globs of milk fat, can be difficult for the uninitiated to get down.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Butter set over steady heat separates; left to sizzle, the milk solids toast in the milk fat, turning sweet, creamy butter into rich, nutty brown butter.
    — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Traditional soft-serve runs about four percent milk fat, while creemees usually land closer to 10 percent.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
  • Cream and milk have remarkably different fat contents, as cream is required to have at least 30% milk fat compared to whole milk which is a mere 3%.
    — Mai Nguyen, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2015
  • Hershey's are the only chocolate chips in our taste test that contain both milk and milk fat, suggesting there’s less actual cocoa than in other chocolate chips.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The ice cream is high in milk fat at 16 percent, low in air and all natural, meaning free of corn syrup, carrageenan and other additives often found in ice cream.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • In milk chocolate, milk fat is mainly used to curb the bitterness of the chocolate, but in semisweet chocolate, at much lower levels, it's also used to make chocolate softer.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The texture here was akin to a thick mousse (perhaps because of a whopping 10% milk fat), and the flavor somehow resembled Parmesan.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Trials of formula supplemented with bovine milk fat globule membranes have shown confusing results.
    — Alice Callahan, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Lock pointed out there are many other factors that affect milk fat production beyond one specific feed supplement, such as age, genetics, health, and time of year.
    — Karen Ho, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Except, unfortunately, spirits have since melted after fans learned that the sculpture is not in fact solid milk fat—but hunks of butter molded around a wire mesh frame like papier-mâché.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Our proximity to luscious dairy means ice creams celebrating the best of milk fat, and our proclivity for seasonality means rotating sorbets and gelatos that highlight peak produce.
    — The Chronicle Food Team, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2021
  • For now, Canadian milk producers who follow the directive could struggle to meet their quotas without adding more cows or incurring other additional costs to produce the same amount of milk fat.
    — Karen Ho, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Key discriminating sensory characteristics of butters included color intensity; diacetyl, cooked, grassy, and milk fat flavors; and salty taste.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2013
  • Quore’s gelato contains only 5% milk fat compared to ice cream, which typically tops 20%, adds Armando Lozano, Quore’s chief operating officer.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • While compelling evidence on the benefits of additives like prebiotics and probiotics is lacking, one exception is milk fat globule membrane (MFGM), a protein present in breastmilk that contains several important biologically active factors.
    — Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020

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