Showing posts with label food properties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food properties. Show all posts

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Feta cheese: physical properties

Feta is one of the most popular, international, white brined cheeses made in many southern European and Middle Eastern countries: Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt, and Israel.

These cheeses derived from goat’s and sheep’s milk (up to 30% goat’s milk), It has been ripened. Fat content based on dry matter approximately 43% and humidity 56% maximum.
Feta cheese does not contain any additives. Feta cheese has a salty, slightly acid taste and pleasant sensory properties that nowadays have a worldwide acceptance.

It contains more moisture and are comparable to cheese made from part-skim cow’s milk. Feta texture is creamy or crumbly dry, varying according to age, local environment, animal breeds and starter cultures.
Feta cheese: physical properties

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Color of food and food acceptability

In spite of the numerous ways by which the appearance attributes of food affect consumer acceptance, the majority of research on the role of appearance in food acceptance has focused on the influence of color.

Color is an important property of foods that adds to enjoyment of eating. Of the three sensory properties of foods; food scientists tell that color is more important than flavor and texture in the initial food selection process.

On study showed that when jellies were colored in an atypical manner, the fruit flavors were incorrectly identified.  It appears that color references for foods are the result of experience, culture and conditioning.

In addition, the colors of food contribute significantly to people to enjoy their meals. For this reason it is desirable to maintain as much of the natural color of fresh and processed foods as possible.

The food processer makes every effort to retain good color characteristics of his/her food products because he or she understands the importance of this property in promoting his/her sales.

Color variations in foods throughout the seasons and the effect of food processing and storage often require that manufacturers add color to certain foods to meet consumer expectations. The general principles for the application of colors to products are described with the overall aim of matching what the consumer expects from the particular food product.

Account must be taken of the effects of pH and processing, especially browning from the Maillard reaction and loss of initial color.
Color of food and food acceptability

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