1. An Introduction to Processed Cheese and its Products 2. Dairy Ingredients in Processed Cheese Products 3. The Use of Different Cheese Sources in Processed Cheese 4. The Use of Vegetable Ingredients in Processed Cheese 5. Flavours, Colours and Preservatives Used in Processed Cheese 6. Functionality of Salts Used in Processed Cheese Manufacture 7. Low Salt and Low Sodium Processed Cheeses 8. Manufacture of Processed Cheese: Equipment Used 9. Technological Aspects of Processed Cheese: Properties and Structure 10. Packaging, Cooling and Storage of Processed Cheese 11. Special Processed Cheeses, Cheese Spreads and Analogue Cheeses 12. Techniques Used for Processed Cheese Characterization 13. Quality and Testing of Processed Cheese: Defects, QA, QC 14. Microbiology of Processed Cheese 15. Regulations and Legislations on Processed Cheese 16. Processed Cheese: Applications, Challenges and Market Trends
Dr. Mamdouh El-Bakry currently works in the food industry as a professor and a regulatory affairs technologist for dairy science. He received his B.Sc. in Dairy Science and Technology from Cairo University, followed by a M.Sc. degree in Food Science and Technology (Ghent University), a M.Sc. in Food Science and Nutrition (Murcia University), and a Ph.D. in Processed Cheese from the University College Dublin. He spent several years in postdoctoral research in Teagasc Food Research Centre in Ireland and the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Dr. El-Bakry's research interests include dairy products, dairy technology, chemistry, microstructure, and microbiology. He has contributed to numerous research/review papers, book chapters, and conference work on dairy science.
Dr. Bhavbhuti M. Mehta is an Associate Professor and Head in the Dairy Chemistry Department, Sheth M.C. College of Dairy Science at Kamdhenu University, Gujarat, India. He teaches various subjects on dairy and food chemistry at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. His major specialty is on various physico-chemical changes (process-induced changes) taking place during processing of milk and milk products and to food chemistry in general. His research interests also include Lipid oxidation and its prevention, methods to measures various oxidative deterioration, functional food ingredients and nutraceuticals, the role of various constituents in dairy and food products, chemistry and technology of milk and dairy products and camel milk. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Dairy Technology.