The Dairy Matrix | Health Professionals

Foods are made up of nutrients that are housed in complex physical structures or matrices. We are discovering the way nutrients interact within the food’s physical matrix can determine its health properties.

Scientists are calling this the ‘food matrix effect’.

This is especially true for the dairy food matrix. Scientists and nutritionists are recognising that the effects of dairy foods extend beyond the benefits of the individual nutrients they contain.

Milk, cheese and yoghurt naturally contain a rich package of nutrients. The food matrix of milk cheese and yoghurt are each unique and they each have a health story to tell.

Head to this page by Dairy Australia to find fact sheets, white papers, infographics and other dairy healthcare information.