exam Flashcards
What percentage of fluid milk is comprised of water?
87-89%
Fluid milk is made up of water and?
- Carbohydrates
- Lactose
- Fat
- Protein
- Minerals (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium,
potassium, sodium, chloride & sulphur) - Water-soluble vitamins
(thiamine & riboflavin)
What is included in the term Solids-not-fat
lactose, caseins,
whey, proteins & minerals
What nutrients are found in milk?
Carbohydrate Protein Calcium Potassium Magnesium Zinc Phosphorus Vitamin A Vitamin B12 Riboflavin
Milk Composition as a % total volume (fats, non-fat-solids, water)
4%, 9%, 87%
What nutritional factors effect milk composition
- Type of feed
- Quality of feed
What non-nutritional factors effect milk composition (6)
- Breed
- Stage of lactation
- Season & temperature
- Age & size
- Disease
- Milking frequency
Milk Composition affects pricing of milk?
- No legislative control
- Milk prices based on the milkfat and protein solids
- “Farm gate” prices can vary between manufacturers, between states, &
among individual farmers - A range of incentive/penalty payments related to milk quality, productivity
and out-of-season supplies
What is the pyhisical appearance of milk?
- Opacity = due to suspended particles of fat,
proteins and certain minerals - Colour = white to slight yellow (carotene
content)
What is the osmotic pressure, freezing point, and pH of milk?
- isotonic
- -0.512°C to -0.59°C
- pH of fresh milk = 6.6 to 6.8
True or False?
Raw milk fresh from cow is almost sterile
True
True or False?
Most cows milked twice a day
True
What temperature is fresh raw milk immediately cooled to?
Below 5°C
What quality assurances of raw milk are taken?
- Standard temperature
- flavour & odour
- Composition
- Antibiotics
- Freezing point depression
- pH/ Acidity
How is Butterfat (BF) and solids-non-fat (SNF) analysed in raw milk?
-Amounts of BF & SNF in milk vary according to
time of year, breed of cow & feed supply
- BF & SNF content, and volume are used to
determine amount of money paid to produce
How do modern cream separators operate ?
using centrifugal separation by separating cream & skim portions of milk
What the are two streams produced during
separation or whole milk?
- fat-depleted stream = produces the beverage
milks; skim milk for evaporation & drying - fat-rich stream = cream = fat content of 35-
45%
What is “Plastic” cream (~80% fat content)
Remains an oil-in-water emulsion (= fat is still in
globules & skim milk is the continuous phase of emulsion…
unlike butter = also has 80% fat, but been churned, so fat
occupies continuous phase & skim milk is dispersed
throughout in the form of tiny droplets, i.e. a water-in-oil
emulsion)
How can protein be added to milk?
maybe done by adding permeate
filtrate/liquid passing through membrane
What is Pasteurisation?
- A process of heating raw milk to kill all pathogenic microbes that may be present - Its NOT sterilisation (= eliminates all viable, life-forms)
All milk must be pasteurised within how many hours?
72 hours
Some harmless bacteria may survive heating process in pasteurisation, what is done to slow the milk from going “sour”?
keeping milk refrigerated slows
growth of these bacteria
What is involved in Low-temperature longer time (LTLT)
pasteurisation?
- A batch method of pasteurisation
- Heats milk to at least 63°C & holds at this
temperature for at least 30 min OR 65°C for 15
min - Can cause a “cooked” flavour, so not always
used for fluid milk products
What is involved in High-temperature/short time (HTST) pasteurisation?
-A continuous method (a plate heat ex hanger) heating milk to 72°C for
at least 15 sec (commercially my be up to 75°C for 15 sec (for cream)
- Milk immediately cooled to below 4°C & packed into plastic bottles or
plastic-coated cartons
What is involved in Ultrapasteurisation?
Milk heated to above 135°C for 2 to 5 sec,
followed by rapid cooling to 7°C or lower
How is milk sterilised?
ultrahigh temperature (UHT) processing is used heating the milk up to 137°C - 150°C for 2 to 6 sec
If milk is un-homogenised will cream portion from a
layer at the top of milk in carton?
True
How is milk homogenised?
•Milk is forced under high pressure through
narrow gap
- Breaks up the butterfat globules to small sizes
- Such small globules will not coalesce (stick together)
•Nutrition or quality of milk NOT affected
In beverage milk, how much milk fat is in Regular or full-fat?
- contains on average between 3.2% to 3.8% milk fat
- a.k.a. full-cream or whole milk & has a rich & creamy
texture (~3.4% fat)
In beverage milk, how much milk fat is in Reduced-fat?
- contains ~2% milk fat
In beverage milk, how much milk fat is in Low-fat?
- contains >1.5% milk fat
In beverage milk, how much milk fat is in Low-fat?
Skim/no-fat:
- contains no more than 0.15% milk fat
- Milk solids (which are produced when water is removed
from liquid milk), are added to optimise the taste
What vitamins may be added to full fat &
reduced fat milks and why?
- Vit A & D (fat-soluble) often added
- Vit A lost during fat separation & heating, while
Vit D not present
What are some concentrated milk products that are obtained through partial water
removal?
Evaporated skim or whole milk; sweetened
condensed milk; condensed whey
What are some dried dairy products that have less than 4% water usually?
milk powder; whey power; whey protein
concentrates
What are the benefits of Concentrated & Dried Dairy Products? (4)
increased shelf life
convenience
product flexibility
decreased transportation costs & storage
What is Condensed Whey?
- Whey resulting from cheese making is condensed by
evaporation - Contains lactose, lactoglobulin, lactalbumin & water
- Fat generally removed by centrifugation & churned as
whey cream or used in ice cream
Various ingredients are blended together in mix tank
equipped with powder funnel & agitation system causing fortification of milk to increase milk solids-not-fat, why is this fortification important in yogurt production?
- Improves consistency (viscosity) & flavour
- Total solids ~14-15% for low fat yoghurts = mostly by adding
skim milk powder at 3-6% (can be higher due to added sugar,
fruit, etc) - Can concentrate milk by ultrafiltration to 18-20% solids
- Pectin or starch or gelatine added sometimes to increase
viscosity - Can use fat substitutes = replace milk fat with starch-based &
microparticulate protein-based fat substitutes
In yogurt production, what occurs when pasteurised?
- Varies = 85°C/30 min to 90-95°C/10-20 min
- Helps formation of casein network
- Increases gel firmness and decreases syneresis
(release of whey from gel) - Shortens coagulation time, increases pH at which
coagulation occurs
In yogurt production, what temperature is the yogurt homogenised and why?
At 50-60°C to improve viscosity & firmness of coagulum; Even dispersion of constituents, solids-non-fat & fat
In yogurt production the mixture is cooled to the optimum temperature for culture growth, what temperature is it cooled to?
40-45°C
What is the process of yogurt production?
- Milk receipt
- Adjust milk composition and blend ingredients
- Pasteurisation
- Homogenisation
- Cooled
- Inoculate with starter cultures
- Hold and cool
- Flavours and fruit added
- Packaged
Explain the starter cultures in yogurt production?
- Symbiotic blend of Streptococcus thermophilus (ST) &
Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus (LB) = ratio
~1:1 - ST grows faster & produces both acid & CO2 which
stimulates LB growth - Proteolytic activity of LB produces stimulatory peptides &
amino acids used by ST - Microbes ultimately responsible for typical yoghurt
flavour & texture - Streptococci drop initial pH to ~5.5
- Lactobacilli further decrease pH to ~4.5
- Incubated till firm gel forms (5-7 h)
What are the different yogurt types?
Set = incubated in container; additives such as fruit
sink to bottom
• Stirred = incubated in tanks; gel disrupted by
stirring, pumping, filling; additives well suspended
• Drinking type: similar to stirred type, but coagulum
is broken down to a liquid
• Frozen type: incubated in tanks & frozen like ice
cream
• Concentrated: incubated in tanks, concentrated &
cooled before being packed, Eg: Greek yogurt
• Plain/natural, flavoured, fruit
• With Probiotics
- Some now also contain ‘probiotics’ or ‘therapeutic’
starters = e.g. the ABC cultures:
L. acidophilus = a common human gut bacterium;
able to colonise gut (L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus cannot)
Bifidobacteria (Bifidobacterium longum or B. bifidum)
L. casei
What are some common steps included in cheese production?
- Treatment of milk
- Additives
- Inoculation & milk ripening
- Coagulation
Enzyme
Acid
Heat + acid - Curd treatment (visco-elastic gel/coagulum)
- Cheese ripening
True or False:
Homogenisation is not usually done for most cheese milk (esp. for hard cheese)?
True
As it:
- Disrupts fat globules & increases fat surface area
where casein particles absorb
- Results in a soft, weak curd at “renneting” & increased
hydrolytic rancidity
What is the casein:fat ratio for cheddar?
0.7:1
What is the first 2 steps in cheese production?
- First cheese milk must be clarified,
separated & standardised - Pasteurisation follows
Calcium chloride is added in cheese production as an additive, how much is added and why?
- 5-20g/100kg
- To replace calcium lost during pasteurisation
- Aids coagulation & reduces amount of rennet required
Why is Lipases used as an additive in cheese production?
to ensure proper flavour development through fat
hydrolysis
Why are starter cultures added in cheese production?
- Addition of starter cultures = basis of cheese making
- Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) ferment lactose to produce lactic
acid and gas - pH is lowered & assists coagulation, promotes syneresis
(liquid oozing out), helps prevent spoilage & pathogenic bacteria
from growing, contributes to texture & keeping quality - LAB also produce growth factors = encourage growth of
non-starter organisms - LAB provide lipases & proteases necessary for flavour
development during curing - Bacterial starters added = bulk starters, freeze dried =
lactic Streptococci, Lactobacilli, Leuconostoc sp.,
Propionibacteria - After starter culture inoculation, milk held for 45-60 min at 25-
30°C = ensures bacteria are active, growing & producing acid
What are the 3rd and 4th steps in cheeses production?
3rd = addition of starter cultures 4th = coagulation
What is coagulation in cheese production and how is it accomplished?
- Gel is formed by destabilising casein micelles causing them
to aggregated & form network that partially immobilises
water & traps fat globules in newly formed matrix - This is done by enzymes, acid treatment or heat-acid
treatment
What are the two main categories of butter?
- Sweet cream butter
- Cultured or sour cream butter made from
bacteriologically soured cream (fermented product)
What is the composition of ice cream?
• Is greater than 10% milkfat by legal definition & as high
as 16% fat in some premium products
• Contains 9-12% milk solids-not-fat (aka serum solids):
- Proteins = caseins & whey proteins
- Carbohydrates = lactose
• Contains 12-16% sweeteners = combination of sucrose
& glucose-based corn syrup
• Contains 0.2-0.5% stabilisers and emulsifiers
• 55-64% is water that comes from milk
What are emulsifiers in ice cream?
Include: egg yolk solids, glycerol monostearate (GMS)
- Help in developing appropriate fat structure & air
distribution for smooth eating & good meltdown
characteristic desired during freezing
each molecule contains a hydrophilic portion & a lipophilic portion
= reside at interface between fat & water
Act to reduce interfacial tension or force that exists between two
phases of emulsion
- Also controls excess churning of fat during the freezing
process (Note: commercial mixes of stabilisers and emulsifiers
are available, & ~ 0.5% of this mix used)
Define food science?
the scientific study of raw food materials and their behaviour during formulation, processing, packaging, storage and evaluation as consumer food products.
What are the dimensions of food science
- Food processing and manufacture
- Food preservation and packaging
- Food wholesomeness and safety
- Food quality evaluation
- Food distribution
- Consumer food preparation and use