Dairy cows know what they like
A story from May about a Danish study showing that dairy cows favor natural over synthetic vitamin E was doing the rounds again in September.
Research carried out at Aarhus University and published in the journal, Food Chemistry, would indicate the dairy cow favors natural vitamin E over synthetic vitamin E. “We have proved that mainly the natural form of vitamin E is secreted into the milk and that cows distinguish between natural and synthetic vitamin E. Thus, cows discriminate much more in favor of the natural vitamin E compared to rats, for example,” reported senior researcher, Søren Krogh Jensen, Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University.
