Factors Affecting the Chemical and Microbiological Profiles Together with the Technological Properties of Milk and Dairy Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Dairy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 5258
Special Issue Editors
Interests: foodomics; feedomics; food chemistry; cheese; milk; food quality and traceability
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Dear Colleagues,
The dairy industries, particularly those involving milk-to-cheese processing, have always been a reservoir of technology, microbiological and chemical phenomena. Understanding the different chemical and microbiological profiles is a crucial aspect of obtaining a high-quality final product. In particular, it becomes crucial to understand how milk quality, applied technology, dairy practices, and farm practices affect the final product. Accordingly, new investigations based on OMICS technologies (such as metabolomics and metagenomics) coupled with classical target microbiology and chemical methods, can improve our understanding of those phenomena occurring during milk processing and considering the raw material used.
In this Special Issue, we invite you to submit contributions (including original research and current review articles) on milk and dairy chemistry, milk and dairy microbiology using high-throughput techniques (metabolomics and metagenomics), and target techniques on specific metabolites or microorganisms from different stages of the transformation process or helpful in explaining positive or defective phenomena in milk and dairy. The works afferent to this Special Issue could include:
Correlations between chemistry, microbiology, and sensory analysis of milk and cheese; evaluation of milk characteristics, feeding choices, process variables, defects, and additional phenomena occurring in milk and dairy products.
Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti
Dr. Andrea Cabiddu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- milk composition
- milk and cheese quality
- foodomics
- metabolomics
- metagenomics
- processing conditions
- lactic acid bacteria
- sensory profile
- bovine and non-bovine milk
- novel technologies
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