The survey was carried out by our team and funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation. The updated values of these micronutrients in milk have been incorporated into the National Diet and Nutrition Survey 2019-2023 to estimate the population’s intake of these nutrients. These values will be published in the McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods integrated dataset in due course, and will be accessible here.
This update to the data on key nutrients in milk has implications for understanding and interpreting how what we eat affects health, for individuals and at the population level. Nutrient analysis of cows’ milk: sampling and analytical report is available to read via the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), part of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
