Journal
FOODS
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods10081938
Keywords
sheep milk; protein; fat; pepsin; homogenization; heat treatment; protein coagulation; structure; gastric digestion
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- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment-New Zealand Milks Mean More (NZ3M)
- Massey University-Doctoral Scholarship, New Zealand
- Riddet Institute, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) - Tertiary Education Commission
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Processed sheep milks, specifically those that have been homogenized and heated, form curds with looser and more fragmented structures compared to unprocessed milk. This accelerates curd breakdown, protein digestion, and the release of protein, fat, and calcium into the digesta. Further observations during gastric digestion include coalescence and flocculation of fat globules in homogenized milks.
Milk is commonly exposed to processing including homogenization and thermal treatment before consumption, and this processing could have an impact on its digestion behavior in the stomach. In this study, we investigated the in vitro gastric digestion behavior of differently processed sheep milks. The samples were raw, pasteurized (75 degrees C/15 s), homogenized (200/20 bar at 65 degrees C)-pasteurized, and homogenized-heated (95 degrees C/5 min) milks. The digestion was performed using a dynamic in vitro gastric digestion system, the human gastric simulator with simulated gastric fluid without gastric lipase. The pH, structure, and composition of the milks in the stomach and the emptied digesta, and the rate of protein hydrolysis were examined. Curds formed from homogenized and heated milk had much looser and more fragmented structures than those formed from unhomogenized milk; this accelerated the curd breakdown, protein digestion and promoted the release of protein, fat, and calcium from the curds into the digesta. Coalescence and flocculation of fat globules were observed during gastric digestion, and most of the fat globules were incorporated into the emptied protein/peptide particles in the homogenized milks. The study provides a better understanding of the gastric emptying and digestion of processed sheep milk under in vitro gastric conditions.
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