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US 12,011,011 B2Granted
Natural cheese and method for making natural cheese with specific texture attributes
AssigneeSargento Cheese Inc.
InventorsMihir Sainani, Kartik Shah, Eva-Maria Düsterhöft, Willem Johannes Marie Engels
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Abstract
The invention provides natural cheese and a method for making natural cheese with specific texture attributes.
Claims10
A method for accumulating milk from which to make natural cheese with a specific texture, said method including the steps:
- creating a first stream of concentrated acidified skim milk;
- creating a second stream of re-blended acidified skim milk;
- creating a third stream of cream with greater than 25% milk fat;
- creating a fourth stream of homogenized milk having between 3-18% milk fat;
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- combining the milk in the four streams to produce an accumulated milk source from which to make the natural cheese with the specific texture.
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A method for producing natural cheese with specific texture attributes, said method including the steps:
- creating a first stream of concentrated acidified milk by adding an acidulant to skim milk to reduce the milk pH and ultrafiltrating the acidified milk;
- creating a second stream of mineral reduced milk stream by re-blending a portion of the concentrate acidified milk with a diluent;
- creating a third stream of cream having greater than 25% milk fat;
- creating a fourth stream of one of raw milk and skim milk;
- creating a fifth stream of homogenized milk having between 3-18% milk fat;
- combining the five streams to produce an accumulated milk source;
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- making the natural cheese from the accumulated milk source.
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