THE CHEMISTRY OF MILK | Dairy Processing Handbook
Milk fat. Milk and cream are examples of fat-in-water (or oil-in-water) emulsions. The milk fat exists as small globules or droplets dispersed in the milk serum, Figure 2.15. Their diameters range from 0.1 to 20 µm (1 µm = 0.001 mm). The average size is 3 – 4 µm and there are some 10 10 globules per ml.