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- Title
Multiscale Structural Insight into Dairy Products and Plant-Based Alternatives by Scattering and Imaging Techniques.
- Authors
Heiden-Hecht, Theresia; Wu, Baohu; Appavou, Marie-Sousai; Förster, Stephan; Frielinghaus, Henrich; Holderer, Olaf
- Abstract
Dairy products and plant-based alternatives have a large range of structural features from atomic to macroscopic length scales. Scattering techniques with neutrons and X-rays provide a unique view into this fascinating world of interfaces and networks provided by, e.g., proteins and lipids. Combining these scattering techniques with a microscopic view into the emulsion and gel systems with environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) assists in a thorough understanding of such systems. Different dairy products, such as milk, or plant-based alternatives, such as milk-imitating drinks, and their derived or even fermented products, including cheese and yogurt, are characterized in terms of their structure on nanometer- to micrometer-length scales. For dairy products, the identified structural features are milk fat globules, casein micelles, CCP nanoclusters, and milk fat crystals. With increasing dry matter content in dairy products, milk fat crystals are identified, whereas casein micelles are non-detectable due to the protein gel network in all types of cheese. For the more inhomogeneous plant-based alternatives, fat crystals, starch structures, and potentially protein structures are identified. These results may function as a base for improving the understanding of dairy products and plant-based alternatives, and may lead to enhanced plant-based alternatives in terms of structure and, thus, sensory aspects such as mouthfeel and texture.
- Subjects
DAIRY substitutes; MILKFAT; YOGURT; DAIRY products; NEUTRON scattering; SCANNING electron microscopy; PROTEIN structure
- Publication
Foods, 2023, Vol 12, Issue 10, p2021
- ISSN
2304-8158
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/foods12102021