Evaluation of cheese meltability using convection and conduction melt profilers

International Journal of Dairy Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 194-201

  Ko, Sanghoon ^a   Gunasekaran, Sundaram ^b  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheese; Graphical analysis; Inverse hill function; Meltability; Melting index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897966263     PISSN: 1364727X     EISSN: 14710307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0307.12112     Document Type: Article

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