What is listamilk?
 

It's literally the best milk I've had in the entire world.. I've heard it's just reconstituted powdered milk but seeing the Grupo Rica website they make it seem like real milk.. does anyone know what it really is? Anywhere else I've had milk it always seems to have a watered down taste compared to listamilk.

cannot help you there, i totally hate milk and rica ain't any worse than what i spat out back home http://www.dr1.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

A former procurement manager of Rica ones told me she used to buy the powder from Holland and Denmark. I don't like Listamilk but actually I dont like any milk that you can keep several weeks.

I don´t know how Listamilk is formulated but I am a big milk drinker and have to say that Listamilk is the best tasting of all the cartoned milk here. The so called fresh milk here always tastes slightly sour to me.

I agree.My family buys listamilk because they say it's the best tasting milk in the DR.

I concur heartily on this. I bought it once by mistake and never looked back. It is unbelievable how long it lasts. I have never had a sour one.

As a lover of milk (used to drink almost a gallon of whole milk a day) the D.R. has been a PITA. The best and "most like the U.S." milk is the fresh milk from Rica (ex:. Rica Leche Entera 32 Oz. ). That is if you can actually find it "fresh". Dominicans have problems keeping cold things cold unless its beer.

I actually went to the Rica factory (on Kennedy) and bought the milk directly from them. Amazingly, out of 10 times that I went there to buy the milk, 2 or 3 of those times, the milk was already going bad. Very hit and miss with anything so sensitive to heat like milk. Finally gave up trying to find fresh milk and started tasting all the UHT (leche rica listamilk) milk brands we find in the D.R. trying to find something that is at least drinkable.

Listamilk is a milk that has gone through a UHT process so that it does not need refrigeration. IMHO, I hate the way UHT milk tastes compared to fresh whole milk but since fresh milk is so hard to find I had to get used to it.

Listamilk is UHT prepped whole milk.
La Vaquita is UHT prepped 2% milk.

As far as I know, Rica is actual milk and not powdered milk. You never know in this country though...

They're both from Rica and about as good as milk gets in this country. Some people like the Parmalat brand but that crap tastes like dirty water to me.

I have a friend who tried to get into the "milk business" years ago. Bought millions in pesos in milk cows, millions in a modern factory to get the milk and sell it to Rica, and has yet to this day to turn a profit. Just dont think Dominicans care too much about milk..... not like in the U.S. where you open up the fridge and pound a gallon of red topped heaven. :P

Damn I want some fresh whole milk now... Capn Crunch deserves it! lol

The reason why there is hardly any fresh whole milk sold is because of the problem
with the power outages.If Dominicans were to buy it,it woudn't last long in fridge.
With the majority not having generators or inversors.

On Monday people were getting any container they could because they wre giving Milk away in Jarabacoa in our neighbourhood because th truck didn't show to take it to the dairy. It was real milk , cream and all.

Very nice post thanks for the insight on the different types of milk available.. I think milk is somewhat of an acquired taste I guess.. I feel exactly the opposite about U.S. milk and listamilk as you do.. Listamilk is the blue boxed heaven and the U.S. milk tastes like dirty water to me.. weird..

I think the explanation for this, is that I traveled to the DR twice a year throughout my entire childhood and can remember from a very young age loving listamilk.. la cajita azul..

One thing I will say.. is if you open a listamilk and leave it in the fridge for like 3-4 days it starts to clunk up and go bad.. never seen milk go bad so quickly.

When milk goes thru the process of homogenize and pasteurize it loses alot of the natural
flavor of fresh milk.A certain percent of fats is removed,which if left gives milk a rich taste.

I remember as a child drinking fresh milk from a cow on my grandparents farm in DR,where
the milk was boiled for a certain period of time,and it was so good,so rich.

Anyone ever tried the whole powdered milk,- imported from Holland or Denmark? We loveeeee it!

No.But I buy one called Nido which is also whole powdered milk and it is also very good.It's the only one
I buy in DR.

Grupo Rica makes a lot of different types of milk. I've been buying their listamilk for years. Once you drink it for a while, you get used to its slightly different flavor.

You can see all of their milk products on their website.

I think I know why it tastes different. If you go to their website (Grupo Rica) and click on the tour de lacteos, you'll see why - their entire operation is run by a rooster!

I suspect it's the same Giant Rooster you see on the top of their building on Kennedy Ave.

FYI you can still buy fresh milk in DR. every morning there are old pickup trucks running through dominican barrios, carrying big blue barrels in the back. they have fresh farm milk. so fresh and so farm, in fact, you have to boil it before drinking.
i buy it for making cheese.

at home we only use listamilk, for baking, since no one drinks it. we also buy butter from rica, it has the shortest ingredients list from all dominican butters http://www.dr1.com/forums/images/smilies/happy.gif

i looked at rica's site, tour de citricos id done by an orange, right? presence of a c**k (rooster, whatever) is kinda... strange http://www.dr1.com/forums/images/smilies/happy.gif

also, rica has great cranberry juice, much better than ocean spray. but unfortunately i have not seen it on sale for months http://www.dr1.com/forums/images/smilies/depressed.gif

I buy whatever I can open and pour easiest, without most of the contents going on the floor!http://www.dr1.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

Read the side label, above the nutritional facts. If im not mistaken it's 5% cranberry juice. Wonder what the other 95% is....

Sugar water. But it's not bad.

On this topic, how many Dominicans know the real Spanish word for cranberry? I don't think I've met even one.