Dairy Product Technology 2
Course content
The course deals with the following areas:
Cheese and fermented milk technology: milk treatment, characterisation of cheese and fermented milk varieties, gross composition of cheese and fermented milks and their relation to dairy technology.
Cheese and fermented milk production: Acidification and glycolysis, lipolysis and esterolysis, proteolysis, peptidolysis, amino acid release, amino acid catabolism and flavour formation, roles of starter, adjunct and non-starter bacteria, ripening enzymes. Chemical methods to evaluate cheese proteolysis and aroma and flavour formation.
Fermented milk products: rheological aspects, exopolysaccharide producing dairy cultures.
Cheese structure: Milk coagulation, syneresis and formation of cheese structure and cheese rheology.
Plant-Based / Non-Dairy: Cheese and Fermented milk substitutes for a greener future.
MSc Programme in Food Science and Technology
The aim of the course is to give students a detailed knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of cheese and fermented milk production, characterisation, technology and biochemistry.
Knowledge
- Understand chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, physics and technology in the production of cheese and fermented milks.
- Understand the characteristics of, and basic differences between, cheese groups and varieties.
- Understand the use and application of dairy enzymes in cheese and fermented milks.
Skills
- Apply critical analysis of cheese and fermented milk quality
and characteristics.
- Competences
- Ability to use and evaluate scientific information and knowledge concerning cheese and fermented milks, incl. all steps of production and ripening.
- Ability to comprehend the technology behind different cheese varieties and fermented milk types.
- Capacity to critically evaluate laboratory results and pilot plant trials with regard to the possible development of innovative cheese and fermented milks and/or processes.
The course involves lectures and laboratory practicals, workshops and oral presentations, literature studies, patent searches and report writing. The student must obtain their own laboratory results and evaluate them in relation to theory given at lectures and found in literature, including critical use of electronic data bases and internet. Results from all students' practicals and literature studies will be merged during oral presentations and discussions in workshops.
See Absalon for a list of course literature.
Qualifications corresponding to Dairy Internship and within the
field of milk processing is recommended.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is
recommended.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Oral examination, 20 min
- Type of assessment details
- 3 weeks before the examination, all examination questions (covering the essential issues dealt with in the course) will be published on Absalon. The students are expected to use all of these questions to be fully prepared for the subsequent oral exam. At the oral exam itself, one of the questions will be drawn by the student, and the examination immediately proceeds. For the question drawn, all aids are allowed during the exam (approx. 15 minutes). The last 5 minutes of the exam will be used for questions in relation to the reports prepared from the laboratory practicals.
- Exam registration requirements
-
Attendance at all laboratory practicals is compulsory. All laboratory reports must have been approved.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
-
Same as ordinary exam.
Non-approved reports must be handed in three weeks prior to the re-exam and approved 2 weeks prior to the re-exam.
Criteria for exam assessment
See Learning Outcome
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 32
- Class Instruction
- 15
- Preparation
- 75
- Practical exercises
- 75
- Project work
- 8
- Exam
- 1
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NFOK16006U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedulegroup
-
C
- Capacity
- 35
The number of places might be reduced if you register in the late-registration period (BSc and MSc) or as a credit or single subject student. - Studyboard
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Food Science
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Anni Bygvrå Hougaard (4-6a6b7170496f78786d37747e376d74)
- Henrik Siegumfeldt (6-766c686a78704369727267316e7831676e)
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