Casein: Structural Properties, Uses, Health Benefits and Nutraceutical Applications investigates casein properties, uses, and applications in food and non-food products, in addition to exploring its health benefits and uses in manufacturing, such as in cheese products, along with an in-depth discussion on the future scope, challenges, and market trends of this protein. Casein: Structural Properties, Uses, Health Benefits and Nutraceutical Applications is an excellent reference for food scientists, dairy researchers, pharmaceutical scientists, students and researchers studying related fields.

Processed Cheese Science and Technology: Ingredients, Manufacture, Functionality, Quality, and Regulations details the most recent developments and updates regarding processed cheeses and cheese products. It offers comprehensive information on all aspects of processed cheese, including manufacturing, types, ingredients, flavors, colors, preservatives, functionality (texture and rheology), analyses, quality, microbiology, regulations and legislations. Structured into 16 chapters, the book begins with an introduction that provides a general overview of processed cheese, followed by a detailed description of the ingredients used in manufacturing, such as using cheeses as ingredients, vegetable-originated ingredients, salts, and more. In addition, low sodium and low-salt processed cheeses are discussed, highlighting the potential benefits for human health. Technological aspects of processed cheese are also covered, followed by an outline of special types of processed cheeses. The book then goes on to examine techniques for end-product characterization, as well as the quality aspects including the microbiology of processed cheese. The last chapter discusses the applications, current challenges, and market trends of processed cheese. Processed Cheese Science and Technology: Ingredients, Manufacture, Functionality, Quality, and Regulations is an excellent resource aimed at food scientists, researchers in academia, and individuals working in the food industry and the commercial sector with a focus on processed cheeses and their end-products.

Milk proteins consist of casein micelles and whey proteins. Heat treatments cause denaturation of whey proteins. The denatured whey proteins may either form whey protein aggregates or may provoke whey protein coating of the casein micelles. This research focused on the effect of heat on the properties of milk proteins and their heat-induced interactions. This effect was studied in different concentrations of whey proteins and different types and concentrations of lecithins, by using three techniques; Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS), Centrifugal Photosedimentometry or Centrifugal Particle Size Analyser and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). From the overall results obtained, it was concluded that the heat-induced interaction between casein micelles and whey proteins could be reduced by addition of hydrophilic lecithins, which could be due to the fact that the latter stabilises the unfolded state of the denatured whey proteins and hence minimises its aggregation and interaction with other proteins.