The present invention relates to a Yarrowia strain, preferably a non-genetically modified Yarrowia strain, for the production of a wild-type, non-engineered, microbial lipolytic enzyme with a high specificity for short-chain fatty acids, preferably with a higher specificity for short chain fatty acids than for medium to long chain fatty acids, preferably when compared to a known microbial lipolytic enzyme. This invention is suitable for use in the food industry, preferably in the dairy industry, more preferably in the cheese industry leading, for example, to flavor enhancement or shortening of the ripening times for ripened cheeses.

Strains of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum, a bacterial preparation including at least one strain of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum, and their use in the preparation of a food product. Also, a method for reducing microbial contamination during a process for the production of a fermented milk product to which a quantity of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum or a bacterial preparation including at least one strain of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum is added.

Strains of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum, a bacterial preparation including at least one strain of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum, and their use in the preparation of a food product. Also, a method for reducing microbial contamination during a process for the production of a fermented milk product to which a quantity of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum or a bacterial preparation including at least one strain of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum is added.

The present invention relates to a process for producing cheese, comprising the steps of: providing a first raw material liquid; providing a second raw material liquid; treating the first raw material liquid with a protein crosslinking enzyme to provide an enzyme-treated raw material liquid; mixing the enzyme-treated raw material liquid with the second raw material liquid to provide cheese milk; processing the cheese milk into cheese. The process produces cheese in improved yields while retaining the organoleptic properties of cheese unchanged. The invention further relates to cheese treated with a protein crosslinking enzyme, having the moisture on a fat-free basis of 67% or less and a protein profile of cheese has proteins of molecular weight of less than 66 kDa.

Variants of chymosin with improved ? S1-casein cleavage and C/P properties.

Disclosed are nucleotide sequences encoding thioesterase enzymes, methods for their production, their use in methods to form thioesters, and their use in methods of screening for other wild type bacteria capable of producing said thioesterase enzymes. Also disclosed are compositions comprising thioesters produced by the methods disclosed herein.

The present invention is related to the field of bioprotection, in particular to the strain of Lactobacillus paracasei CHCC14676 with accession no. DSM25612. Furthermore, the present invention concerns an antifungal composition comprising the strain, an antifungal composition comprising the strain and at least one strain of Lactobacillus rhamnosus, food, feed and pharmaceutical products comprising such an antifungal composition, a method of manufacturing such food, feed and pharmaceutical products, a method for reducing the content of yeasts and molds of such food, feed and pharmaceutical products and uses of the antifungal composition.

Bacteriophage Insensitive Mutants (BIMs) of three Streptococcus thermophilus parent strains were generated and characterized for phage sensitivity, sedimentation rate, cell chain length, phage adsorption and CRISPR loci alterations. Several BIMs showed an altered sedimentation phenotype as well as an increase cell chain length, reduced phage sensitivity, reduced phage adsorption and 100% identity in three CRISPR loci. The results show that the derived BIMs have become phage-resistant through a mechanism other than CRISPR.

A novel dairy product that has a certain solidity and a favorable flavor is provided. A dairy product, including: a milk-derived raw material containing casein; and a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence having 90% or more identity to the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1.

A method for producing a lactic acid bacteria fermented milk product comprising fermenting milk with both inoculated lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and inoculated Bacillus bacteria.