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AssigneeKraft Foods R & D, Inc.
InventorsRamarathna Koka, David W. Mehnert, Rudolf J. Fritsch, Wolfram Steffan, Peter Habermeier, Allan G. W. Bradbury, Alan Wolfschoon-Pombo, Mehran Rose
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Process for manufacturing cheeses and other dairy products, and the resulting products, in which lactobionic acid is added, or generated in situ, in combination with a dairy component in the course of the process. The lactobionic acid can be used as the sole acidulent for direct acidification of the cheese, or in conjunction with reduced amounts of lactic acid culture. When the lactobionic acid is generated in situ during cheese manufacture according to the invention, a lactose oxidase is used in one embodiment to convert lactose intrinsically present in the dairy liquid ingredient(s) into lactobionic acid. The organoleptic attributes of the cheeses made using lactobionic acid as an ingredient are satisfactory and fully suitable. The process can be applied to the production of a wide variety of cheeses, including, for example, cream cheeses, hard cheeses such as cheddar, UF cheeses, process cheeses, cheddar cheeses, and so forth.
A process for manufacturing a cheese product containing lactobionic acid, comprising the steps of:
A process for manufacturing a process cheese product containing lactobionic acid, said comprising the steps of:
A cheese product comprising cheese and lactobionic acid or a dietarily acceptable salt or neutralized form thereof, wherein the lactobionic acid or dietarily acceptable salt or neutralized form thereof is present in an amount of about 0.1 to about 10 percent of the cheese product.
A process for manufacturing a dairy product containing lactobionic acid, comprising the steps of:
A process cheese comprising about 0.1 to about 10 percent of lactobionic acid and/or a salt thereof, wherein the process cheese has a dry matter content of about 25 to about 60 percent and a fat content of about 5 to about 40 percent.
A process for preparing process cheese, said process comprising the steps of:
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