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For a white liquid, milk is quite complex. Inside are thousands of types of molecules including water, fats, sugar, proteins, enzymes, hormones and vitamins. And the product itself can be hard to describe — it’s simultaneously an emulsion of oils in water, a suspension of casein and other proteins, and a solution of sugars, soluble proteins and other substances.