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Fungal Intoxication in Food: Mycotoxin (Aflatoxin) Poisoning

The most vulnerable species are all animals with pets taking the heaviest blow due to their small sized bodies. They catch the poison from contaminated food.

Diseases & Health

General Cheese Making Process & Types of Cheese

Ensure you use only good quality raw milk. You should check for inhibitory substances, standardization efficiency and protein thermal stabil...

Agroprocessing

Why Freezing Point is More Dependable Than Lactometric Method in Determining Milk Adulteration

Milk has a constant proportion of milk solutes hence will have a definite freezing point. Research has shown that milk freezes at temperatur...

Quality Management

Microbiology of Starter Cultures: Why Bacteria Matter

By far the most important group is the bacteria, mostly the lactic acid bacteria (LABs) e.g. Streptococcus, Leuconostoc and Lactobacillus. T...

Quality Management

20 Serious Butter Defects & Their Solutions

Before releasing the butter to the market for sale, a team of competent judges conducts a series of tests to grade it. They carry out organo...

Quality Management

Enzyme Inhibition & Application of Enzymes in Food Processing

Bananas, for example, are typically harvested green, ripen to a yellow fruit, and finally over ripen, first to a speckled brown, then to pri...

Quality Management

What It Takes to Be A Dairy Technologist: Important Qualifications

The profession calls for the technologist to work standard business/working days a week. However, there are some instances that will call fo...

Research & Development

Protein Content Determination: Kjeldahl Process

You can apply this process on a large variety of foods to determine the nitrogen content, which you then translate as a protein content usin...

Quality Management

Pearson's Square & Mass Balancing Methods of Standardization

Milk standardization is important in the dairy industry because it is used to ensure that every consumer gets milk with constant fat content...

Quality Management

Non-dairy Creamer Market Riding on Coattails of ‘Fat-free’, ‘Plant-based’ and ‘Organic’: FMI Study

The FMI study finds that powdered non-dairy creamer consumption remained higher in 2018 and accounted for over 78% of the total non-dairy cr...

Research & Development

13 Costly Ice Cream Defects & Their Remedies

To reduce the occurrence of this defect, control the quality of the raw materials. Use only the best ingredients for the manufacturing proce...

Quality Management

Mass Balance Equations for Standardizing Milk and Juice Concentrates

Flavors in foods are as a result of volatile compounds, which are mostly lost during the evaporation process. The loss in these volatile com...

Quality Management

Best Quality Cheese Cloth, Its Alternative Uses and Available Alternatives

The gauzy cloth comes in different microns and is usually made of cotton fiber. Grades vary from open (grade 10) to very fine textured chees...

Agroprocessing

How To Make Margarine In 9 Short Simple Steps

The real butter was so expensive that only the wealthy could afford it. The low-cost of margarine gave the poor people an opportunity to use...

Agroprocessing

Viral, Rickettsial and Parasitic Zoonoses: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Control Measures

Viral zoonoses are acute and affect all warm-blooded animals and humans. The major characteristics of these diseases include hyper-excitabil...

Diseases & Health

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