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Determination of Clotting Power of Milk Clotting Enzymes

Department of Food Engineering and Biotechnology Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

ABSTRACT

A simple objective method employing a rotational type viscometer is proposed for determination of the clotting power of milk-curdling enzymes through continuous monitoring of the viscosity of a milk-enzyme system. A characteristic viscosity versus time pattern is a constant viscosity base line followed by a steep linear increase in viscosity when coagulation sets in. The coagulation point is defined as the intersection of the two straight lines of such a plot. Linear calibration curves relating enzyme concentration with coagulation point were obtained with correlation coefficients larger than .996.