nw NC | StewartMD - 11/6/2020 13:30
I have no clue what the answer is to your question but it made me think of something else. Back in high school my sister was on the FFA Dairy Judging Team. They had to smell milk samples to identify what the cows ate. If I remember right, garlic was something that if a cow ate too much of it their milk would taste/smell that way? Anyone heard of that?
When Dad pastured the milking cows during the years of my youth, there was always the possibility of there being wild garlic in the fields. If cows grazed grass and clover and got enough wild garlic with it, the milk could smell and taste of garlic. Sometimes, just fresh grass alone imparted enough grassy odor and taste to milk to make it unpleasant to drink. A few years ago, my barn and feedlot confined milking herd escaped into a nearby grass field growing lush early spring grasses and purple deadnettle. If you know what deadnettle is, you know it stinks. When cows came into milking parlor , the odor of deadnettle in the breath of twelve cows in the confinement of the parlor was quite powerful. After milking I opened the lid of the milk tank and I could detect an odor of deadnettle and grass in the tank. I tasted the milk but off flavor was hardly noticeable. |
Does corn silage impart a bad flavor to beef?
