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Chemical Correlations Between Industrial Curds and Final Cheeses. Can Cheesemakers Standardise Productions?

Michele BaroneIzabela SteinkaCaterina BaroneMarcella BarberaSalvatore Parisi

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IngredientExpiration dateCheesemakingFrozen storageBusinessRaw materialPulp and paper industry

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The chemical composition of milks and curds influences the microbial ecology and chemical features of produced cheeses. This statement is quite obvious because ‘normal’ cheeses—products with a prevailing ingredient, milk—are obtained by means of the transformation of the main raw material and the addition of minor components. Because of the possible scarcity of readily available milk in many regions or economic areas, the industry of milk and dairy products, including cheeses, has improved the production of ready-to-use curds. These products, also named ‘industrial curds’, are produced exclusively for further cheesemaking processes. For this reason, ready-to-use curds are pre-packaged with the aim of supplying cheesemaking industries. However, the standardisation of curds is easily possible only near curd-making industries. This Chapter discusses adequate countermeasures for final cheesemakers; on the other side, the complete control on cheese production parameters in these conditions does not seem to be a possibility at present.

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2016-12-21
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50942-6_4