Assessment of donkey milk chemical, microbiological and sensory attributes in Greece and Cyprus

International Journal of Dairy Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 143-146

  Malissiova, Eleni ^a   Arsenos, Georgios ^b   Papademas, Photis ^c   Fletouris, Dimitrios ^b   Manouras, Athanasios ^a   Aspri, Maria ^c   Nikolopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Giannopoulou, Alexandra ^a   Arvanitoyannis, Ioannis S ^d  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Donkey milk; Greece; Hygiene; Milk composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954376841     PISSN: 1364727X     EISSN: 14710307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0307.12245     Document Type: Article

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