Rennet coagulation of milk Heat coagulation of milk Effect of preheating on the heat cot tion of milk Evaporated milk. Gelation of concentrated Dried milk Instant milk. Frozen milk products Curd tension. milks igula PACK 113 113 117 102 Reviews of the progress of dairy science pH of milk, exist partly in dissolved and partly in insoluble or rather colloidal form, and, in fact, in close association with casein. As the influence of this type of salt on the properties of milk differs considerably according to the phase in which it is situated, a correct assessment of salt partition between serum and milk colloids is of primary importance. The dividing line between soluble and colloidal is admittedly tenuous and somewhat arbitrary, its exact position depending very much on the means employed to achieve the separation. For the milk salts, however, a fairly sharp separation is not unduly difficult chiefly because the insoluble or colloidal salts occur mainly in association with the relatively coarse colloidal micelles of casein. All modes of separation used must of course meet the requirement of not bringing about any alteration in the equilibrium between the dissolved and colloidal states; quite a variety of methods is available and in common use which fulfils this condition approximately. These include dialysis, ultrafiltration, high-speed centrifugation, and the use of caseincoagulating enzymes such as rennin. All of these methods have been used almost indiscriminately for the purpose both in earlier and more recent work. From a recent comparative study of these methods Davies & White (3) conclude that dialysis of milk (to which a little chloroform has been added as preservative) at 20 °C against a relatively small volume of water furnishes the most satisfactory procedure of separation, and that there is no reason for supposing that the diffusate obtained in this way does not truly represent the aqueous phase of milk. Dialysis at 3°C or so, commonly employed in earlier investigations, is less suitable, for reasons to be discussed later. Ultrafiltration of milk through cellophane at 20 °C and under a pressure of 38 cmHg is also satisfactory and gives a serum of very similar composition to the diffusate, though slightly lower in calcium, citrate and lactose. Use of higher pressures accentuates this disparity, presumably through a 'sieving' effect. Both 'centrifuge serum', prepared by centrifuging separated milk for 3 h at about 20°C and 50000g, and rennet whey differ from diffusate and ultrafiltrates in containing the serum proteins of the milk ('centrifuge serum' contains in addition a small amount of the colloidal calcium caseinate-phosphate complex, and rennet whey some products of casein proteolysis), but nevertheless they correspond well with the diffusate in salt composition except for a natural tendency to be slightly high in calcium. The basic similarity in composition of all these sera, so differently prepared, is strong presumptive evidence, say the authors, of the identity of composition of the diffusate pr...