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Flavored milk is the milk in which some flavor and color have been added to make it more palatable. Flavored milk should contain milk fat percent equal to the minimum legal requirement prescribed for the milk from which it is prepared. The term "drink" can be used when there is a minimum of 2 percent fat content. Nowadays, one can find a variety of flavored milk in the market like chocolate flavored milk, fruit flavored milk and sterilized flavored milk, which are more popular.
The method of production of flavored milk involves standardizing the milk to the desired fat and SNF percent (generally 2% fat and 9.5% SNF). It is then heated, homogenized and clarified. The desired amount of cocoa powder at the rate of 1.5%, sugar at 7 to 9% and stabilizer (at the prescribed level) are added to the warm milk for the preparation of chocolate milk. In the case of fruit flavored milk, instead of cocoa powder, 0.04% of fruit flavors and colors are added to milk. Milk is pasteurized, cooled, bottled and kept under refrigeration. Popular flavors that are used in preparation different types of flavored milk are strawberry, orange, lemon, pineapple, banana, vanilla, etc.
Procedure
The milk intended for flavor milk production is tested and standardized for milk fat and SNF contents.
The amount of sugar, flavor and color required for the preparation of the given quantity of flavored milk is calculated.
All the ingredients are weighed separately.
The standardized milk is taken into the vat and heated to a temperature to 60 ° C.
Sugar is added to the milk at the rate of 7-9% and dissolved in it completely before filtering.
Then it is homogenized in a two-stage homogenizer at 60 ° C.
The milk is pasteurized at the standard pasteurization temperature-time combination (80 ° C for 5 minutes or 65 ° C for 10 minutes). The combination selected will vary with nature of the ingredients and the characteristics of the processing vessel. After heating, the product is immediately cooled to below 5 ° C.
The required amount of flavor (rose, banana, orange, pineapple, etc) and matching color dependent on the requirements is added and mixed well with the plunger.
The flavored milk is filled in cleaned glass bottles and stored at 5 ° C till consumed.
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