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Microstructure And Rheology Of Process Cheese, Abdelaziz Hassan Rayan
Microstructure And Rheology Of Process Cheese, Abdelaziz Hassan Rayan
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Four batches of pasteurized process cheese were prepared from the same Cheddar cheese by cooking to 82C in the presence of sodium citrate, disodium phosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate or sodium aluminum phosphate. Each batch contained the same moisture (40.6%) and emulsifying salt concentration (2.5%). The process cheese was sampled for microstructural and rheological examination after 0, 5, 10, 20 and 40 min in the cooker at 82C.
Even though each emulsifying salt affected the physical properties of the process cheese differently, the cheese generally became firmer, stiffer, more elastic and less meltable as cooking time increased from 0 to 40 min. …