{"id":42,"date":"2026-09-05T07:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/pasteurized-vs-raw-milk-lab-tests\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T07:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:03:58","slug":"pasteurized-vs-raw-milk-lab-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/pasteurized-vs-raw-milk-lab-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasteurized vs. Raw Milk: What Our Lab Actually Tests For"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few topics start a livelier conversation at the farm gate than raw versus pasteurized milk. As the person who runs our milk lab, here is what the science says \u2014 and why we pasteurize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What pasteurization does<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pasteurizing heats milk just enough to destroy harmful bacteria such as Listeria, E. coli and Salmonella. We use a gentle low-temperature method rather than ultra-high heat, which is why our milk still tastes fresh and keeps its cream line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What it does not change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Protein, calcium and most vitamins stay essentially the same.<\/li><li>The fat \u2014 and the cream on top \u2014 is untouched because we do not homogenize.<\/li><li>The flavour of good grass-fed milk still comes through.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raw milk can only ever be as safe as the last cow milked. Pasteurizing, combined with batch-by-batch testing, means every bottle we deliver is both delicious and safe for children, grandparents and everyone in between.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plain-language guide to pasteurization, what it changes, what it does not, and the tests we run before any milk leaves the farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,26],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-milk-quality","tag-food-safety","tag-pasteurization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-dairy-farm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}