Method for producing Swiss-type cheese
AssigneeCSK Food Enrichment B.V.
InventorsWillem Cornelis Meijer, Lourdes Mariela Serrano Davalos, Lex Smalbrink
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Abstract
The invention relates to an improved method for the production of curd and for the production of cheese from said curd, in particular a Swiss-type cheese, wherein a precursor is inoculated with a starter culture comprising a strain of dairy Propionibacteria, a strain of lactic acid bacteria and a source of lacticin. The invention further relates to curds and cheeses obtainable by the method as well as to a starter culture for producing a cheese, comprising a strain of dairy Propionibacteria, a strain of lactic acid bacteria and a source of lacticin.
Claims17
A method for the production of curd comprising inoculating a precursor with a starter culture comprising unmodified dairy Propionibacteria, a strain of lactic acid bacteria and a source of lacticin 3147, wherein the starter culture comprises no source of nisin and class IIa bacteriocin, wherein the amount of the source of lacticin 3147 is such that the curd and/or cheese produced with the starter culture comprises at least 0.1 mg lacticin 3147 per kg curd and/or cheese, and wherein the amount of dairy Propionibacteria comprised in the starter culture is such that at least 102 cfu dairy Propionibacteria are added to 1 gram of precursor for curd and/or cheese.
A starter culture for making curd and/or cheese comprising unmodified dairy Propionibacteria, a strain of lactic acid bacteria and a source of lacticin 3147, wherein the starter culture comprises no source of nisin and class IIa bacteriocin, wherein the amount of the source of lacticin 3147 is such that the curd and/or cheese produced with the starter culture comprises at least 0.1 mg lacticin 3147 per kg curd and/or cheese, and wherein the amount of dairy Propionibacteria comprised in the starter culture is such that at least 102 cfu dairy Propionibacteria are added to 1 gram of precursor for curd and/or cheese.
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