Cheese ripening: A review on modern technologies towards flavor enhancement, process acceleration and improved quality assessment

ConclusionsThe assessment of cheese ripening is such a challenging but imperative process, which warrants the use of methods to effectively study the multitude biochemical changes that occur during this process. Some practices are posed in this review for more future applications to include exploration of a wider range of encapsulated enzyme cocktails and mixed attenuated adjunct cultures, design of intelligent packaging and utilization of IR technology, E-nose, optical techniques to control quality and estimate shelf life of cheeses. The main technological challenge in this reviewed processes for flavor enhancement and ripening acceleration is how applicable to be implemented in the cheese industry.Graphical abstract
Source: Trends in Food Science and Technology - Category: Food Science Source Type: research