Milch & Markt - All About Whey

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	It all began with milk
	-	Milk a raw material / How whey is created
	-	Production and processing / Quality aspects
	-	Meticolous testing
	What makes whey such a valuable food
	Product applications in the food industry
	Whey Producers

Milk a raw material / How whey is created

Milk a raw material

To describe the origins and the composition of whey, we need to start by describing the product from which it stems. Which is milk. Milk is a natural food that contains all the substances which man requires for a wholesome diet. We group these substances into the following categories:

Production and processing / Quality aspects

Production and processing

Whey is a by-product of cheese, quark and casein production, i.e. it is created through the precipitation of casein in milk or skimmed milk and the subsequent mechanical separation of the precipitated casein together with the remaining fat. The different types of whey are classified according to the method of precipitation used (see Table 1). Cheese is made using rennet-enzyme precipitation. The whey this generates is called sweet whey. Curd-cheese and ...

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Meticolous testing

Once separated from cheese, quark and casein, whey is refrigerated and temporarily stored in a cleansed steel tank on-site at the cheese-production plant, from where tank trucks then transport the whey to specialised processing plants. Upon the arrival of the tanks at their destination and before the whey is pumped out of the transport tanks, testing is carried out to establish whether it complies with quality parameters such as the prescribed pH value and temperature.

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