| Type of Protein |
Dairy - Whey proteins |
| Protein name |
Beta-lactoglobulin |
| Companies producing this protein |
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| Function (dairy alternative, colorant, texture, taste...) |
Dairy alternative (Kossmann et al., 2025)
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| Target application (cheese, infant formula, meat...) |
Infant formula, sports nutrition supplements (Kossmann et al., 2025)
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| Purity requirement/purification values |
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| Techno-functional properties |
Gelling, foaming & emulsifying agent (Keppler et al., 2021)
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| Nutritional properties |
Plays a key role in human nutrition, functioning as a source of essential amino acids and bioactive peptides with antioxidant, antihypertensive, and antimicrobial properties (Kossmann et al., 2025)
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| Advantages |
A functional versitile protein, has different techno-functional properties that can be exploited (Keppler et al., 2021)
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| Challenges/risk factors |
Potential allergenicity (Chatel et al., 1996)
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