Improving Milk Products with Probiotic

Probiotics are beneficial for individuals to maintain good health and increase resistance to various diseases. In addition, probiotics can influence many properties of milk and milk products (e.g., changing physical and chemical properties, improving aroma and taste, changing texture characteristics, and inhibiting harmful bacteria). The dairy industry is increasingly seeking to improve its products with these probiotics. For example, probiotic supplementation can significantly affect the aroma of yogurt by increasing the production of acetic, acetoin, 2-butanone, and 2-ethyl-1-hexanol. However, when probiotics are added to yogurt, the low protein hydrolysis activity and slow growth rate often result in higher syneresis and affect the texture of the yogurt. This is where adding certain functional ingredients can improve the texture of the yogurt. Lifeasible offers services to help discover probiotics that enhance the quality of milk and milk products, study the quality-enhancing functions of probiotics, explore solutions with the addition of probiotics, and optimize probiotic reproduction or viability.

Fig. 1 Beneficial effects of probiotic bacteria (Colombo et al., 2018).

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Isolation and identification of probiotics from high-quality milk and milk products

We help isolate and identify probiotic strains from existing high-quality milk and milk products. We help in the isolation and identification of a wide range of probiotics in milk testing, which has enabled us to gain extensive experience in probiotic culture and probiotic identification. We can assist in isolating and identifying probiotic bacteria efficiently.

Study the changes in properties caused by probiotics

Different probiotics differ in their enhancement of the properties of milk and milk products. We help explore the changes in properties of milk and milk products caused by probiotics, including aroma, taste, texture, pH, etc. We also help detect new substances produced by probiotic fermentation and changes in the content and composition of substances such as proteins or fats. In addition, we help find the beneficial effects of these new substances on the human body based on the available literature and explore the effect of each composition change on the property changes of the milk and milk products.

Explore solutions with the addition of probiotics

The addition of probiotics can be beneficial to a person's health. However, adding probiotics may lead to poor texture in milk products, and we offer services to help explore ways to improve texture. For other low properties caused by probiotics, we provide customized solutions.

Optimization of probiotic reproduction or viability

The slow growth of probiotics in milk can lead to inadequate fermentation of milk and potential fermentation risks. We offer services to help optimize the acidification capacity of probiotics, add growth factors and growth promoters to fermentation media, and explore adjunct starter bacteria to optimize the reproduction of probiotics and enhance their viability in milk products.

Lifeasible helps to improve milk and milk products using probiotics. We help optimize all aspects of milk and milk products using probiotics. Please contact us for a customized milk and milk product optimization service with probiotics.