Edited by
Valérie Gagnaire, INRAE Institut Agro, UMR Science et Technologie du Lait et de l’Œuf, France.
Thomas Croguennec, Institut Agro Rennes Angers, INRAE Institut Agro, UMR Science et Technologie du Lait et de l’Œuf, France.
Milk is considered a complete food, consumed at all stages of life. It is transformed into numerous products, fermented or not, as well as into a variety of ingredients, in order to preserve it or some of its constituents from a few days to a few years. This book addresses the innovations that deal with milk and the use of gentle techniques that best preserve dairy constituents.
This book explores some of the current challenges facing the milk processing industry, namely: i) showing the advances in infant milk formula to best mimic breastfeeding and the in vitro models that study newborn digestion, ii) combining tradition and new consumer expectations on emblematic dairy products, such as yogurt and fermented milk products, iii) defining optimal cheese-making practices to control both cheese quality and yield, iv) outlining the current research approaches to meet “consum’actor” demands, as well as those dealing with v) the fouling and cleaning of dairy equipment in a context of increasingly constrained water and energy use.
1. Infant Formulae: Ingredient Selection, Manufacturing Technology, Innovation, Challenges and Opportunities, Nicolas Malterre, Loreto M. Alonso-Miravalles and James A. O'Mahony.
2. Strengths and Limitations of Current In Vitro Models Used for Studying Infant Digestion, Amira Halabi, Thomas Croguennec and Amélie Deglaire.
3. Yogurts and Fermented Milks, Marie-Hélène Famelart, Sylvie Turgeon, Valérie Gagnaire, Gwénaël Jan, Eric Guedon, Audrey Gilbert, Anne Thierry and Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier.
4. Enzymatic Gelation of Milk, Curd Draining and Cheese Yields, Julien Bauland, Sébastien Roustel, Marc Faiveley, Marie-Hélène Famelart and Thomas Croguennec.
5. Do Technological Operations Have an Impact on the Nutritional Properties of Dairy Products? Frédéric Gaucheron and Constance Boyer.
6. Fouling in the Dairy Industry, Weiji Liu and Guillaume Delaplace.
Valérie Gagnaire is a research director at INRAE Institut Agro, UMR Science et Technologie du Lait et de l’Œuf, France. A food biochemist, her research interests include the functionalization of dairy and plant mixes by fermentation with lactic acid bacteria in order to obtain enhanced nutritional, technofunctional and organoleptic properties, as well as health benefits.
Thomas Croguennec is a professor in biophysical chemistry of dairy products at Institut Agro Rennes Angers, INRAE Institut Agro, UMR Science et Technologie du Lait et de l’Œuf, France. His research interests include the structure and functionality relationships of dairy proteins.