The present invention relates to a method for producing a solid food ingredient, comprising the steps: i) providing a liquid dairy composition comprising at least 50 wt % caseins relative to its total dry mass, and comprising at most 20 wt % fat(s) relative to its total dry mass; ii) adding at least one transglutaminase to the composition of step i), at a dose less than or equal to 3 units per gram of total nitrogenous matter (TNM); iii) at least partially cross-linking the caseins of the liquid composition comprising said at least one transglutaminase; iv) inactivating said at least one transglutaminase; v) transforming the liquid composition obtained after step iv) into a solid ingredient.

Cheese sauce products including phospholipid emulsifiers exhibit delayed, reduced or eliminated formation of a surface film upon prolonged exposure to air. The cheese sauce products include a cheese composition that is non-solid at room temperature, a liquid, and a phospholipid emulsifier composition. The cheese sauce products are clean label due to the absence of disodium and/or trisodium phosphates therein. Methods of preventing the formation of a surface film on a cheese sauce product involve mixing a cheese sauce composition with a liquid to form a cheese sauce, and admixing a phospholipid emulsifier composition to the cheese sauce. The phospholipid emulsifier composition constitutes about 0.5 wt % to about 5 wt % of the cheese sauce product.

Improving the balance of beneficial gut microbiota of an animal by providing a composition containing beta-casein, wherein at least 75% by weight of the beta-casein is a beta-casein variant that has a proline at position 67 of the beta-casein amino acid sequence.

Improving the balance of beneficial gut microbiota of an animal by providing a composition containing beta-casein, wherein at least 75% by weight of the beta-casein is a beta-casein variant that has a proline at position 67 of the beta-casein amino acid sequence.

The present disclosure provides anticaking agents for cheese, comprising an botanical extract from Sorbus, such as Sorbus aucuparia. Also provided are anticaking agents for cheese, comprising 15-30 wt. % reducing sugar, 0.2-0.8 wt. % glucose oxidase, 0-2 wt. % salt chosen from sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride, and 0.5-10 wt. % botanical extract. The present disclosure further provides food products comprising these anticaking agents and methods of treating divided cheese for anticaking with these anticaking agents.

There is provided a method for the manufacture of a cream cheese, the method comprising: (i) providing cheese curds, (ii) providing a whey protein solution comprising ideal whey, (iii) subjecting the whey protein solution to a cavitation treatment sufficient to heat the whey protein solution to a temperature of at least 70 C. to provide a heat-treated whey protein solution, (iv) mixing the cheese curds and the heat-treated whey protein solution to form a mixture, and (v) subjecting the mixture to a texture-building heat-treatment to form the cream cheese.

The present disclosure provides anticaking agents for cheese, comprising an botanical extract from Sorbus, such as Sorbus aucuparia. Also provided are anticaking agents for cheese, comprising 15-30 wt. % reducing sugar, 0.2-0.8 wt. % glucose oxidase, 0-2 wt. % salt chosen from sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride, and 0.5-10 wt. % botanical extract. The present disclosure further provides food products comprising these anticaking agents and methods of treating divided cheese for anticaking with these anticaking agents.

The present invention relates to a heat stable milk protein product. Particularly, the invention relates to a heat stable milk protein product which can be used as a meat substitute that can be heated by microwaves, fried or grilled. The present invention relates also processes for producing such heat stable milk protein products.

A method for making a new food, feed or pharmaceutical product comprising addition of a composition comprising cross-linked, via intermolecular covalent isopeptide bonds, casein glycomacropeptide (CGMP) oligomers (CGMP oligomers) to the product.

Pasta filata cheese products of the Mozzarella type are suggested, obtainable or obtained by: (a) subjecting milk to bactofugation or filtration, obtaining a bactofugate or a bacterial concentrate and a treated milk; (b) sterilising and, optionally, standardising the bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (b); (c) blending the treated milk of step (a) with the sterilised bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate of step (b); (d) coagulating the blended product of step (c) while adding starter cultures and/or rennet; (e) separating the coagulated milk of step (d) into whey and curd; (f) processing the whey with fine curd particles contained therein obtained in step (e) into a stable suspension; (g) subjecting the curd obtained in step (e) to heat treatment, and (h) shaping the heat-treated product of step (g),
wherein the suspension produced in step (f) is either added to the bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (a), or to the sterilised bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (b).