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A review of the interactions between milk proteins and dairy flavor compounds
1North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7624, USA.
Abstract:
The effect of sodium caseinate and whey protein concentrate on vanillin, benzaldehyde, citral, and d-limonene was determined by quantitative descriptive analysis deviation from reference. A trained taste panel evaluated samples containing a single flavor compound in 2.5% sucrose solution against a reference sample. Vanillin, benzaldehyde, and d-limonene flavor intensity decreased as the concentration of whey protein concentrate increased. In a separate study, the ability of delipidated methyl ketones to bind straight and branched chain methyl ketones was determined. The concentration of straight chain methyl ketones bound by the milk protein powder was inversely proportional to the size of the ligand. Branched chain methyl ketones did not exhibit a trend in binding based on ligand size.
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