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Abstract In recent years a great scientific efforts were carried out for reducing fat and salt in the diet and milk and dairy products were consider as a big source of fat and salt uptake in the diet. The excessive consumption of fat and salt can be associated with a number of diet related illnesses. This led nutritional experts to recommend that the overall intake of fat and salt in the diet should be reduced. The dairy industry has responded to these concern by developing technology for the production of low fat and also low salt cheeses varieties. In Egypt most of milk on the market is a mixture of cow’s and buffaloe’s milk. Recently, the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control issued in 2001 a new standard recommended that Egyptian cheeses must be made from pasteurized milk and the use of starter culture to retain good flavour. In general the work of the present study was discussed under the following topics: I- Impact of some raw bulk milk treatments on the rennet coagulation properties. II- Characteristics of low fat milk under various conditions. III- Processing and compositional characteristics of low fat low salt soft cheese. |