Novel milk fat globule concentrate, method of production, and food products containing it
OwnerShyam Krishna SUWAL, Ulf ANDERSENinventors
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to a method of producing high fat milk fat globule concentrates by microfiltration, to the concentrates obtained by the method, to a process of producing butter-like milk fat products and to the obtained butter-like milk fat products.
Claims13
A method of producing a milk fat globule concentrate, the method comprising the following steps:
- 1) providing a milk fat globule-containing dairy liquid (mfl) which is a cream having a total fat content in the range of 10-50% w/w,
- 2) subjecting the mfl to microfiltration (MF) to concentrate the mfl to a total fat content of in the range of 60-85% w/w, wherein the microfiltration involves the use of a ceramic microfiltration membrane,
- wherein the microfiltration membrane has a pore size in the range of 0.05-1.5 micron.
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The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the mfl of step 1) has a temperature in the range of 40-70 degrees C., more preferably 45-70 degrees C., even more preferably 50-65 degrees C., and most preferably 55-60 degrees C.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the microfiltration of step 2) furthermore involves diafiltration, preferably using water or an aqueous solution as diluent.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the microfiltration of step 2) does not involve diafiltration.
The method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the microfiltration membrane has a pore size in the range of 0.1-0.8, and most preferably 0.2-0.4 micron.
The method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the MF membrane is a ceramic membrane comprising or even consisting of metal oxide and/or metal carbide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.