“…Due to the potential for interactions between tea catechins and milk proteins (Ye, Fan, Xu, & Liang, 2013;Yuksel, Avci, & Erdem, 2010), creating functional dairy foods, containing tea catechins, that maintain antioxidant activity, is a challenge unless new technologies, such as nanoencapsulation to protect catechins from interacting with milk components, are applied (Rashidinejad, Birch, Sun-Waterhouse, & Everett, 2014). Han et al (2011) and Huvaere et al (2011) reported that the addition of some polyphenols, including catechins, affected the composition of curds and cheese due to possible interactions between milk components and catechins.…”