Vine Farm Milk | Leicestershire

Our Milk

Vine Farm Dairy is offering you the opportunity to buy the freshest pasteurised milk straight from our family owned farm. It is produced by our herd of happy free range Montbeliarde, Holstein and Jersey cows.

The milk in the vending machine has been pasteurised to kill any harmful bacteria, but it has not been through the industrial processes of homogenisation, separation or standardisation, meaning it retains all of its flavour and quality.

Once the milk has settled, cream will rise to the top, if you aren’t keen on this, just shake the bottle and it will mix back in, or save the cream for your morning cereal.

What do these processes mean?

Homogenisation:

A process by which the fat globules from milk are broken down into a smaller and more uniform size preventing them from rising to the top. Research has shown that changes to fat molecules in the milk can cause allergic reactions and make milk less digestible.

Separation:

The process where milk is separated into its cream component and liquid component.

Standardisation:

The process where the cream and liquid component are re-blended to make milk that contains the exact amount (‘standard’) of fat required depending on whether it is whole, semi-skimmed, or skimmed. Low fat milk options tend to have less Vitamin A and Vitamin E.