milk processing
Making dairy safe
Milk processing is the industrial treatment of raw milk to make it safe, extend its shelf life, and prepare it for consumption or further manufacture.
This includes pasteurization (heating to kill pathogens), homogenization (breaking up fat globules so cream doesn't separate), and sometimes fortification with vitamins.
Milk processing also encompasses separation into cream and skim milk, and conversion into products like cheese, butter, yogurt, and powdered milk.
- dairy farmLivestock operation for milk
- cold chainTemperature-controlled distribution system
- homogenizerMachine creating uniform mixtures
- pasteurizationThermal pathogen elimination process
- cheeseFermented milk solid
separator · sterilization · evaporator · standardization · traceability systems · clarification · kefir · cream · ghee · butter · shelf life · yogurt · fermentation · churn · whey protein · heat exchanger · curdling · powdered
- dairybutter, cream, cheese, yogurt, sour cream
- dairyingdairy farms, dairy cows, dairy farming, creameries, butter production
- nomadic lifenomads, yurt, wanderers, tent, Bedouins
- homogenizationuniformity, consistency, standardization, sameness, conformity
milk processingraw milk
Unheated, unhomogenized dairy liquid
unpasteurized milk · straight from the cow · fresh milk · unpasteurized · whole milk