The present work aimed to produce Minas Frescal cheese with the replacement of commercial lactic culture by fermented kefir milk (FKM) and verify some its physicochemical characteristics, aiming mainly at development a new probiotic dairy product low production cost as compared use cultures. Kefir grains were added whole UHT 22ºC/24 hours in an incubator, after fermentation separated FKM was us...

Stability in gut ecosystems is an important area of study that impacts on the use of additives and is related with several pathologies. Kefir is a fermented milk drink made with a consortium of yeast and bacteria as a fermentation starter, of which the use as additive in companion and livestock animals has increased in the last few years. To investigate the effect of kefir milk on foregut and h...

Rheological, textural, and sensory properties of kefirs with inulin were analysed. Besides, the effect of skim milk powder (SMP) and milk fat substitution was examined by high performance (HP) and native inulin. One-third of SMP was substituted by native (IQ) or HP (TEX!, HPX) inulin. Hardness of kefir with IQ inulin was lower than that with HP inulins or pure SMP. Analysis of cohesiveness and ...