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US 4,194,019 AGranted
Preparation of an acidified milk beverage
AssigneeCalpis Shokuhin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMutsuo Yasumatsu, Kenji Katayama, Shozo Takeuchi, Yoshio Saito
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Abstract
An acidified milk beverage which has milk protein stably dispersed therein and which is ready to drink without dilution is produced by subjecting an acidified skim milk having a milk solids-not-fat content of 0.5 to 3.5 w/w % and a pH value of 3.0 to 3.9 to a heating treatment at an ultra-high temperature in the range of 100.degree. to 160.degree. C.
Claims3
A method for the production of a stabilized acidified milk beverage, which consists essentially of
- preparing an acidified milk having a milk solids-not-fat content of 0.7 to 1.5 w/w% and a pH value of 3.35 to 3.75 from skim milk and subsequently
- subjecting the acidified milk to an ultra-high temperature heating treatment at temperatures in the range of 125.degree. to 160.degree. C. for not more than ten seconds, said process being carried out in the absence of added sugar prior to said ultra-high temperature heating.
The method of claim 9 wherein sugar is added in an amount of about 8 to 13 w/w%.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.