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JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE
Volume 89, Issue 11, Pages 4126-4143Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72458-4
Keywords
Pecorino cheese; nonstarter lactic acid bacteria; proteolysis; volatile component
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Nine Italian ewes' milk cheeses were compared for compositional, microbiological, biochemical, and volatile profile characteristics. Mean values for the gross composition were rather similar among cheeses. The lowest pH values were found for cheeses that used primary starters. At the end of ripening, cheeses made from raw milk contained > 6.0 log(10) cfu/g of nonstarter lactic acid bacteria. Several species of lactobacilli were identified, but Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus paracasei were dominant. Random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR analysis showed the biodiversity among the strains, and in several cases a relationship with the cheese of provenance. Cheeses differed mainly for secondary proteolysis, as shown by the principal component analysis applied to reversed-phase fast protein liquid chromatography data of the pH 4.6-soluble fractions and by determination of the free AA. A total of 113 volatile components were identified in the Italian Pecorino cheeses by solid-phase microextraction coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. The volatile profiles of the 9 cheeses differed significantly. Quantitatively, alcohols were the most abundant chemical class for some cheeses, whereas ketones were the most abundant for other cheeses. Esters and carboxylic acids were largely found. Specific volatile components seemed to distinguish specific cheeses.
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