I agree and cheese too. Even after the explanation which I read while eating
my cheese.
Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham, Robert [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 11:54 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] OT : Friday Trivia
>
> God, I love this list!!!
>
> bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Rosenblatt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 12:59 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT : Friday Trivia
>
>
> Cheese is made by coagulating milk to give curds which are then separated
> from the liquid, whey, after which they can be processed and matured to
> produce a wide variety of cheeses. Milk is coagulated by the addition of
> rennet. The active ingredient of rennet is the enzyme, chymosin (also
> known
> as rennin). Rennet is usually sourced from the abomasum (fourth stomach)
> of
> newly-born calves. Here, chymosin aids the digestion and absorption of
> milk.
> This is why it chymosin is most prevalent in young calves. This is also
> why
> nutritionists refer to curdled milk as predigested. Only the milk of
> ruminating animals chemically reacts to the enzyme produced by the fourth
> stomach of ruminating animals. Other animals neither produce nor react to
> chymosin.
>
> Curdling can be brought about by other chemicals and bacterial agents.
> Many
> of the rennetless cheeses are produced using various coagulating agents
> such
> as nettle, thistle and fig leaf. Today most commercial rennetless cheese
> uses the fungus Mucor miehei.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf
> Of Ted Ashton
> Sent:   Friday, August 04, 2000 2:30 PM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] OT : Friday Trivia
>
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Joseph Rosenblatt,
> > >Camel's milk does not curdle.
> > Only the milk of ruminating (cud chewing) animals curdles.
>
> Why?
>
> Ted
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