Open AccessHygienic Quality Assessment of Buffalo Milk
Author(s) -
Ștefania Gheorghe,
Anamaria Blaga Petrean,
Adriana Morea
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of university of agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine cluj-napoca. agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1843-5386
pISSN - 1843-5246
DOI - 10.15835/buasvmcn-agr:6595
Subject(s) - dry matter , lactose , dry season , zoology , grazing , food science , biology , chemistry , agronomy , ecology
Fatty, protein, lactose and dry matter were analyzed from 468 samples of buffalo raw milk collected from mixture (n = 416) and individually (n = 52). From these samples a number of 270 samples (57.70%) were collected in winter season and the remaining 198 (42.30%) in summer season. The results of buffalo milk integrity collected from routes and individually were the following: 6.7% vs.7.7% for fatty and 8.36% vs. 10.09% for non-fat dry matter. Average values of the main components of buffalo milk determined in the winter are slightly increased than those obtained during the grazing season: 3.78 vs. 3.74 for protein, 4.92 vs. 4.74 for lactose, 7.92 vs. 7.49 for fatty and 16.50 vs. 16.48 for dry matter. Statistical processing of the data shows that differences were significant at fatty, very significant at lactose and statistically insignificant at protein and dry matter.