Myth No. 13
"Pasteurization destroys 20% of the iodine present in milk, causes constipation and generally takes from milk it's most vital qualities."
- Pasteurization does not "take from milk it's most vital qualities". Far from it. Minimum pasteurization conditions provide safety to milk without appreciably altering it's nutritional value.
- Iodine: Literature indicates that neither cream removal nor pasteurization nor spray-drying of milk affected the concentration of either natural or iodophor-derived iodine.
- Even when milk was boiled, only 0.02% of iodine was lost.
- Wheeler et al. JDS 1983 Feb 66(2) 187-195.