Cheese and whey products and methods for making cheese and whey products
AssigneeKhalifa University of Science and Technology
InventorsFawzi Banat, Mustapha Mbye, Adiba Akram
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Abstract
A method of producing a cheese product and/or a whey product may include UV treating a volume of milk, adding at least one additive to form a milk mixture, wherein the at least one additive comprises camel chymosin, and separating curds and liquid whey. The cheese product may be the curds or produced from the curds. The liquid whey may be fermented. P. acidilactici bacteria may be added to the liquid whey for fermentation. The fermented liquid whey may be dried to form whey protein.
Claims20
A method of producing a cheese product and/or a whey product comprising:
- UV treating a volume of milk;
- adding at least one additive to form a milk mixture, wherein the at least one additive comprises camel chymosin;
- and
- separating curds and liquid whey.
A protein supplement comprising:
- whey powder;
- and
- a viable count of P. acidilactici bacteria, wherein the viable count is least 106 CFU/g.
A cheese product comprising:
- bottle gourd seed extract and/or gum Arabic extract,
- wherein the cheese product is produced by:
- UV treating a volume of milk;
- adding camel chymosin to the UV treated volume of milk to produce curds and liquid whey;
- and
- separating the curds from the liquid whey, wherein the cheese product is the curds or produced from the curds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.