Dairy products and milk-based food ingredients

This chapter explains how milk, a natural source of human nutrition and functional food materials, serves as the raw material for the production of dairy products used as foodstuffs in their own right and as ingredients in the manufacture of formulated and processed foods. It discusses ways in which milk can be reduced to its component parts, modified, processed and reassembled to achieve specific functional value for the manufacture of natural food ingredients used in specific food applications.