Functional dairy products

Functional Dairy Probiotic Food Development: Trends, Concepts, and Products

Health Benefits of Milk and Functional Dairy Products

1School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, China 2Department of Nutrition & Food technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan 3Departmentof Food process Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia 4Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan 5Department of Food Process...

Probiotics in Dairy Fermented Products

Interest in the role of probiotics for human health began as early as 1908 when Metchnikoff associated the intake of fermented milk with prolonged life (Lourens-Hattingh and Vilijoen, 2001b). However, the relationship between intestinal microbiota and good health and nutrition has only recently been investigated. Therefore, it was not until the 1960’s that health benefit claims began appearing ...

Microbiological Spoilage of Dairy Products

The wide array of available dairy foods challenges the microbiologist, engineer, and technologist to find the best ways to prevent the entry of microorganisms, destroy those that do get in along with their enzymes, and prevent the growth and activities of those that escape processing treatments. Troublesome spoilage microorganisms include aerobic psychrotrophic Gram-negative bacteria, yeasts, m...

Calcium, dairy products and osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is a multifactorial disorder in which nutrition plays a role but does not account for the totality of the problem. 139 papers published since 1975 and describing studies of the relationship of calcium intake and bone health are briefly analyzed. Of 52 investigator-controlled calcium intervention studies, all but two showed better bone balance at high intakes, or greater bone gain d...