Several microorganisms including bacteria, yeast, moulds, and/or combinations thereof are necessary for milk fermentation during manufacturing of cheese and other fermented milk products.
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Decision Making Techniques: Advantages and Disadvantages
Decision making is a meticulously outlined process that involves goal setting, gathering sufficient information and planning the execution plan. Decision making techniques call for assessment and weighing of the available options to choose the most effective one to implement.
How to Conduct Preliminary and Confirmatory Quality Tests on Milk
Quality assurance for milk and milk products require a concerted effort from all the key stake holders along the entire dairy value chain. This is because dairy products are highly susceptible to bacterial contamination and/or spoilage.
Lactose Intolerance & How to Determine Lactose Content in Milk & Milk Products
The problem of lacatse enzyme deficiency is referred to as hypolactasia. This is when the body cannot produce enough lactase enzyme to digest lactose. This causes lactose intolerance.
Microbiological Testing Procedures in Dairy Quality Assurance
Microbiological testing is a crucial part of the quality assurance process because it anchors the safety of the food product. Every product that passes through the plant must be attested to have high standards that the consumers expect.
What to Consider When Buying the Best Portable Milking Machine
Machine milking has many advantages for the farmer including reducing the amount of labor required for hand milking. It cuts down the costs of operation and reduces the time required for milking.
Why Are Youths in sub-Sahara Africa Not Interested in Agriculture & Agribusiness?
With high unemployment rates at 60%, the rapid transition is a potential time bomb since the large number of well-educated youths fail to get employed in gainful jobs. Agribusiness is a promising frontier to curb the runaway unemployment in Sub-Sahara ...
Standardizing Chemicals for Dairy Quality Assurance Tests
Quality management begins at the farm. The condition of the animal affects the quality of milk produced for processing. The animal must be very healthy, the animal feeds must be of high quality, the shed must be clean and the ...
Mass Balance Equations for Standardizing Milk and Juice Concentrates
Mass balance equations facilitate understanding of the quality of food by determining the different food components and how they complement each other. The various components of milk are often expressed as a percentage of the total, usually based on 100 ...
Milk Fever: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention Measures
A positive diagnosis is given when the blood calcium level goes below 8.5 mg/dl (or 2 mmol/l). Incalf cows need to replenish the calcium that the fetus needs for growth, which is about 30 g per day.
Starter Cultures, Culture Media Preparation & Effect of Growth Inhibitors
Agar imparts unique physical characteristics to the culture media, which makes it suitable for its purpose. For instance, agar enables the media to melt at 100ºC and then cool back to less than 40ºC before re-solidifying. Additionally, very few organisms ...
Freemartinism in Dairy Cattle Explained
Freemartinism is a severe form of sexual abnormality in cattle. Affects female calves born to male twins 90% of the time and results in infertility. Male calves are rarely affected, however, there could be a little reduction in the size ...