摘要:
A system and method for making an enhanced cheese product includes a milk processing system for developing cheese curd, and a mixing means which mixes the cheese curd and the enhancing agent. By applying negative pressure to a mixture of cheese curd and enhancing agent, the enhancing agent can be drawn into the cheese curds. The enhancing agent may include whey protein to increase product. Likewise, probotics, fat substitute, enzymes and flavorings may be added to the cheese curds to produce cheese products with reduced spoilage, decreased fat, accelerated ripening or new flavors.
摘要:
A &bgr;-D-galactosidase which is encapsulated with fatty acid ester, does not exert its hydrolysis function in milk but hydrolyze lactose in the human body. Hence, the milk containing the encapsulated &bgr;-D-galactosidase, does not change in sweetness with storage and is digestible to the &bgr;-D-galactosidase-deficient people. In addition, the milk can maintain its characteristic taste without off-flavor by virtue of the excellent feature of fatty acid ester.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a method for stabilizing the flavor of a fermented malt beverage, most particularly a beer, by the addition of one or more inhibitors, blockers, reducing agents or binding agents that inactivate one or more Maillard reaction intermediates that induce staling of the flavor of fermented malt beverages. In preferred such methods, the agents used are reductase enzymes, especially aldehyde reductases, carbonyl reductases, aldose reductases, oxoaldehyde reductases and most particularly oxidoreductases such as isozymes of Old Yellow Enzyme (OYE;EC 1.6.99.1) (e.g., OYE1 and OYE2 and OYE3). The invention is also directed to the fermented malt beverage prepared by such a method, and to the use during the brewing process of reductase enzymes from naturally occurring sources, including those produced by yeasts, to stabilize the flavor of the resulting beer product and to produce a beer having a stable flavor. The invention also relates to cells which have been specifically modified, selected, or genetically engineered to express or secrete a reductase enzyme which may be used during the brewing process to stabilize the flavor of the resulting beer product and to produce a beer having a stable flavor. The invention also provides fermented malt beverages having enhanced flavor stability produced by these methods.
摘要:
The current invention includes a process for making cream cheese wherein nutrients typically lost as whey during processing are utilized in the final cream cheese; the resulting cream cheese has the body, texture, and taste of conventional cream cheese. The process of the current invention utilizes acidifying and cross-linking steps to process a dairy liquid into a wheyless cream cheese by utilizing the protein cross-linking activity of transglutaminase. The wheyless cream cheese does not require the addition of stabilizers and/or emulsifiers. Furthermore, the cream cheese that is formed is firmer than typical cream cheese and has significantly reduced syneresis.
摘要:
A natural biogenerated cheese flavoring system is provided which can be used to prepare very different cheeses having desired flavor profiles. More specifically, the present cheese flavoring system contains a sulfury-cheddar flavored component, a creamy-buttery flavored component, and a cheesy flavored component. Each of these flavored components can be used as flavor building blocks with their own specific flavor profiles and/or characteristics. Using various combinations of these flavored components, cheeses having a wide variety of flavors can be produced. The flavored components are separately prepared from a highly concentrated milk substrate using compositions (e.g., specific enzymes, cultures, and additives) and process conditions designed to provide the flavored components having specific flavor profiles and/or characteristics. The flavor concentrates can be used in process cheese, process cheese-type products, or other cheeses to produce very different cheeses with desired flavor profiles. The flavor concentrates can also be used as a natural flavoring system in other food products.
摘要:
The present invention provides methods for: (a) concentrating cholesterol-desaturase activity in a cell free extract, wherein the cell free extract can be a homogenate fraction, a microsomal fraction or a desaturase-enriched fraction from a Tetrahymenidae family microorganism and (b) decreasing the cholesterol content of a foodstuff of animal origin, such as a dairy product. The methods comprise the step of treating a foodstuff by incubating the same with a cell free extract in a effective amount to enable changes in the foodstuff: (a)reduce the level of cholesterol; and (b) increase the level of at least one desaturated cholesterol derivative: &Dgr;7-dehydrocholesterol, &Dgr;22 dehydrocholesterol and/or &Dgr;7,22 bisdehydrocholesterol.
摘要:
The present invention provides a wheyless process for preparing natural mozzarella cheese using dry dairy ingredients. This process enables the manufacture of cheese from non-perishable or shelf-stable ingredients such as dried milk protein concentrate and anhydrous milkfat. This enables greater flexibility in the location of cheese manufacturing facilities as handling and/or transporting large quantities of fresh milk is not required. Also, in utilizing such a process, the need for refrigerated storage of the fresh milk would be minimal. The dry dairy ingredients used in the present invention comprise milk protein concentrates and blends of milk protein concentrates with up to about 50 percent of a second dry dairy ingredient selected from the group consisting of whey protein concentrate, whey protein isolate, calcium caseinate, sodium caseinate, rennet casein, acid casein, nonfat dry milk, and mixtures thereof.
摘要:
A process for producing a high moisture cream cheese having desirable textural characteristics (i.e., increased firmness) is provided. More specifically, the process of the invention provides a high moisture cream cheese with significantly increased firmness by controlling the moisture levels during the manufacturing process at levels below the final target moisture level of the final cream cheese product; the moisture level of the final composition is then adjusted to the final target moisture level by the addition of water. It has surprisingly been found that control of the moisture levels during the manufacturing process in this manner results in-significantly increased levels of firmness in the final cream cheese product. Indeed, the firmness of the high moisture cream cheese product produced using this method is about 5 to about 20 fold greater than standard cream cheese prepared without such moisture control.
摘要:
The invention is directed to a method for producing acidic milk beverages, characterized by homogenizing fermented milk, then adding water-soluble hemicellulose thereto for mixing, followed by an additional step of homogenization. The method provides stable acidic milk beverages which undergo less sedimentation or separation of whey during product storage, and which have favorable flavor.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for preparing a dairy product, in which a medium comprising milk or a milk product is treated under aerobic conditions with a lactose-negative, food-technologically acceptable microorganism, and is then kept under anaerobic conditions for some time. Furthermore, the invention relates to a dairy product obtainable by this method.