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哺乳類の乳房でつくられる分泌液

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Milk is a white or yellow body fluid produced by the mammary gland of mammals. It is an emulsion classified as a food and food ingredient. The substance consists of liquid water, protein, fat, and sodium chloride. It serves as a dairy product and is used to make cheese and yogurt.

Nutritional data indicates that milk contains 76 kcal of energy, 2.7 g of fat, and 8.8 g of carbohydrates. It provides 4 g of protein and 0.5 g of salt. The sugar content is 8.2 g, with 0.2 g of fiber. Milk has a Nutri-Score of B and is classified as Nova group 1. Its carbon footprint is recorded as 1.3.

The topic is distinct from cow's milk, sheep milk, water buffalo milk, and goat milk. It is part of yogurt and quark. Milk is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. It is represented by the Unicode character 🥛 and the hashtag milk.

Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Openfoodfacts, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Nutrition · Open Food Facts

Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 6,044 products

bNutri-Score

1NOVA · Unprocessed / minimally processed

Energy: 76 kcal
Fat: 2.7 g
— of which saturates: 1.6 g
Carbohydrates: 8.8 g
— of which sugars: 8.2 g
Fibre: 0.2 g
Protein: 4 g
Salt: 0.5 g

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Research

200,168 papers

Mother's Own Milk Versus Donor Human Milk: What's the Difference?ReviewCritical care nursing clinics of North America · 2024Parker LA, Koernere R, Fordham K et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cnc.2023.09.002
Human milk for preterm infants.ReviewSeminars in fetal & neonatal medicine · 2025Modi NDOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2025.101634
Human Milk Fortification Strategies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.ReviewClinics in perinatology · 2023Fu TT, Poindexter BBDOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2023.04.006
Human Milk for the Term Newborn.ReviewClinics in perinatology · 2021Von Kohorn I, Flaherman VDOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2021.05.005
The Human Milk Metabolome: A Scoping Literature Review.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association · 2023Baumgartel K, Stevens M, Vijayakumar N et al.DOI: 10.1177/08903344231156449
Human Milk Sharing in the United States: A Scoping Review.Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2022Kullmann KC, Adams AC, Feldman-Winter LDOI: 10.1089/bfm.2022.0013
Microbiological Screening of Donor Human Milk.ReviewBreastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2023Schreiner C, Müller A, Dresbach TDOI: 10.1089/bfm.2023.0155
Human milk microbes: Strategies to improve delivery to the infant.ReviewSeminars in perinatology · 2021DeBose-Scarlett E, Bendixen MM, Lorca GL et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.semperi.2021.151451

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: non-alcoholic beverage
Part of: quark
Has part: magnesium
Image: Glass of Milk (33657535532).jpg
Has use: whey

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Commons category: Milk
color: yellow
Commons gallery: Milk
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
produced by: mammary gland
Unicode character: 🥛
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
WordLift URL: data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/milk
hashtag: milk
carbon footprint: 1.3
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000012
topic has template: Template:Milk navbox
different from: goat milk

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Article · 日本語

乳汁（にゅうじゅう、ちしる、ちちしる）とは、乳（ちち、にゅう）、ミルク（英: milk）とも言われる、動物のうち哺乳類が幼児に栄養を与えて育てるために母体が作りだす分泌液である。特に母乳（ぼにゅう）と呼ぶ場合は、ヒトの女性が出す乳汁を指すのが慣例である。誕生後の哺乳類が他の食物を摂取できるようになるまでの間、子供の成長に見合った栄養を獲得できる最初の源となる。

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