“…It is well known that, during heating of milk, b-lactoglobulin can form a complex with k-casein at the micelle surface, which limits rennet hydrolysis of k-casein and release of GMP (Calvo, Law, & Leaver, 1995;Van Hooydonk, DeKoster, & Boerrigter, 1987). As it is not only the peptide but also the carbohydrate moieties (especially NeuNAc content) that are thought to be responsible for the various reported biological activities of GMP (Li & Mine, 2004b;Manso & Lopez-Fandino, 2004;Yvon, Beucher, Builloteau, Huerou-Luron, & Corring, 1994), and as processing conditions are likely to influence glycosylation (Ferron-Baumy, Molle, Garric, & Maubois, 1992), it is necessary to understand how milk heat treatments influence the carbohydrates bound to GMP. In this paper, the effect of milk heat treatment on the quantity of GMP recovered and the carbohydrates associated with this GMP after hydrolysis by rennet are reported.…”