Kraft‘s latest Cheese Patent 6214404, ‘Incorporation of supersaturated lactose in process cheese and product thereof’, proposes a method of incorporating over 17% lactose in Process Cheese such that the lactose does not crystallise. Crystals give a grainy mouthfeel to cheese, and evidently, expensive research has gone into obviating it.

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Abstract:


The present invention discloses a method of preparing a process cheese containing lactose wherein the cheese remains free of lactose crystals. The method includes a step in which a dairy liquid is heated at a temperature, and for a duration in time, that are sufficient to inhibit or prevent crystallization of the lactose after formation of the process cheese. The ratio of dairy liquid to cheese is from about 1:1 to about 3:1 by weight. The invention additionally discloses the lactose-containing process cheese stabilized against the formation of lactose crystals, prepared by the process of the invention.


Claim 11 (of 20):

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A lactose-containing process cheese stabilized against the formation of significant lactose crystals, said process cheese being prepared by a process comprising:


(1) preparing a dairy liquid containing lactose at a concentration sufficient to provide a high level of
lactose in the process cheese;


(2) heating the dairy liquid at a temperature and for a time sufficient to inhibit or prevent significant
crystallization of the lactose after formation of the process cheese;


(3) blending the heated dairy liquid, without cooling, with fat, an emulsifier, salt, and a preservative to
form a heated dairy blend;


(4) blending the heated dairy blend with a melted cheese to yield a melted cheese blend;


(5) heating the melted cheese blend at a temperature between about 170.degree. F. and about 200.degree. F. for between about one minute and ten minutes to provide the process cheese; and


(6) packaging the process cheese; wherein the process cheese contains at least 17 percent lactose in the moisture phase and remains
significantly free of lactose crystals upon storage at refrigerated temperatures.


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By Navroz Havewala, just-food.com correspondent