{"id":21227,"date":"2015-06-19T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=21227"},"modified":"2015-06-19T10:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:17:32","slug":"a-dairy-thickener-with-probiotic-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/a-dairy-thickener-with-probiotic-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dairy Thickener with Probiotic Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ropy 352 is a huge polymer with some even bigger implications for the dairy industry. Now don\u2019t be scared off by the word polymer&mdash;it just means a very long string of molecules.<\/p>\n<p>After microbiologists at Oregon State University isolated some good (meaning non-disease causing) bacteria in their lab, they notice that the bacteria produced <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2015\/jun\/decades-research-yield-natural-dairy-thickener-probiotic-potential\" target=\"_blank\">a polymer with some very intriguing properties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Ropy 352, as the microbiologists named the polymer, has the power to confer a creamier, thicker consistency on fermented foods, like sour cream, yogurt, kefir, buttermilk, and <em>yes<\/em>, cheese. According to Jenine Trempy, an OSU microbiologist behind this research breakthrough, the polymer works by fermenting the sugar in milk and then producing a substance that alters its textural properties.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does the Ropy 352 act as a thickening agent. It <em>also<\/em> turns out that it has probiotic properties. Given the huge market for probiotics in the US, this big molecule means big business. The probiotic benefits also make the thickener a potentially great alternative to xanthan gum, a current thickener of choice in the commercial food industry. The latter, also derived from bacteria, is a plant pathogen (read: makes plants ill) that has been known to cause <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/whats-the-deal-with-xanthan-gu-101500\">digestive distress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are hopeful that Ropy 352 will help make a host of foodstuffs more palatable with a better mouth feel, including non-fat and low fat products. Now, maybe, just maybe, it could be harnessed in the pursuit of better vegan cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ropy 352 might be the next super hero of the commercial food industry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":21558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[799],"class_list":["post-21227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Dairy Thickener with Probiotic Powers - culture: the word on cheese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/a-dairy-thickener-with-probiotic-powers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Dairy Thickener with Probiotic Powers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ropy 352 might be the next super hero of the commercial food industry.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/a-dairy-thickener-with-probiotic-powers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"culture: the word on cheese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-19T14:17:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ropy352_ftr.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"368\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Johnisha Levi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Johnisha Levi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/a-dairy-thickener-with-probiotic-powers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/a-dairy-thickener-with-probiotic-powers\/\",\"name\":\"A Dairy Thickener with Probiotic Powers - 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