USING LACTASE TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF PREPARING AN EXPRESSED FERMENTED MILK PRODUCT Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC A23C9/12 

FIELD: dairy industry.

SUBSTANCE: method for production of a expressed fermented milk product involves production of a milk product, and addition of lactase and bacteria culture, containing at least one strain of mesophilic lactic acid bacteria and at least one strain of thermophilic lactic acid bacteria, and fermenting the milk product to produce a fermented milk product. Then one performs separation of liquid whey from the fermented milk product to produce a strained fermented milk product. Lactase is added 10–40 minutes before adding a culture of bacteria and in amount of 0.05 wt % to 0.20 wt % in terms of total weight of milk product.

EFFECT: invention prevents plugging of separation device, thereby preventing sudden reduction of total protein content in the finished product and preventing its sudden increase in the separated serum.

13 cl, 7 dwg, 2 tbl, 4 ex