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US 7,192,619 B2Granted
Modified milk protein concentrates and their use in making gels and dairy products
AssigneeNew Zealand Dairy Board
InventorsStephen Thomas Dybing, Ganugapati Vijaya Bhaskar, Francis Patrick Dunlop, Anthony Michael Fayerman, Michael John Whitton
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Abstract
The method of the invention produces modified milk protein concentrates using cation exchange to replace divalent ions with monovalent ions. The modified milk protein concentrate produced may be converted into a gel which may be a cheese-like product itself, or used to make end products such as cheeses, cheese-like products, savory products, desserts, confectionary products and intermediate food products.
Claims21
A method for producing a modified milk protein concentrate (MPC) suitable for producing a gel which comprises:
- subjecting an aqueous solution of unmodified MPC to cation exchange using a food approved cation exchanger containing monovalent cations to obtain a predetermined amount of substitution of monovalent cations for divalent cations in said modified MPC and recovering said modified MPC, wherein the calcium content of said modified MPC is depleted to be 20 to 85% of the calcium content of the unmodified MPC.
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