Fun Facts About Cheese

Fun Facts About Cheese 

1 pound of cheese = 10 pounds of milk  


1 gallon of ice cream = 12 pounds of milk 


1 pound of butter = 21.1 pounds of milk 


Vanilla is America’s favorite ice cream flavor 


1 gallon of milk = approximately 345 squirts 


It takes 340 squirts to fill a milk pail 


Americans eat the equivalent of 10 acres of pizza every day! 


Americans eat an average of 29 pounds of cheese every year—over a lifetime that’s more than a ton of cheese 


The milk bottle was invented in 1884.  Plastic milk containers were introduced in 1964. 


Cows have an acute sense of smell – they can smell something up to 6 miles away! 


These cows are very healthy!  They make milk out of the feed they eat, therefore there is not a lot of fat on there body making their confirmation more obvious 


Cows chew at least 50 times per minute 


Cows eat over 90 pounds of food each day. Hay, corn silage, corn, cottonseed, grass 


Cows drink over 35 gallons of water every day, in the summer time that is sometimes doubled! 


Milk is cooled down to below 40 F right on the farm 


Average U.S. cow produces 53 pounds of milk= 6.2 gallons  


Cows can detect smell up to six miles away 


Cows can go up stairs, but not down stairs 


The milk bottle was invented in 1884.  Plastic milk containers were introduced in 1964 


Dairy products naturally contain calcium, this is why they are the best way to get calcium to our body .


Milk is approximately 97% water