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Food additives data book - wordpres

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Enzymes 454<br />

NAME: Rennet (bovine abomasum)<br />

CATEGORY: Enzymes<br />

FOOD USE: Cheese<br />

SYNONYMS: Chymosin/ EC 3.4.23.4/ CAS 9001-98-3/ Bovine rennet/ Rennin<br />

PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: Yellowish-white powder, peculiar odour, slight salty taste<br />

SOLUBILITY % AT VARIOUS TEMPERATURE/pH COMBINATIONS:<br />

in water: Slightly soluble<br />

pH OPTIMUM: 4.8–6<br />

TEMPERATURE OPTIMUM °C: 30–40<br />

SIDE ACTIVITIES: May contain pepsin<br />

FUNCTION IN FOODS: Specific for one bond of kappa-casein<br />

TECHNOLOGY OF USE IN FOODS: Cheese – coagulation of casein as powder or solution at 0.01–0.15%<br />

LEGISLATION: USA: UK and CANADA: AUSTRALIA/<br />

EUROPE: PACIFIC RIM:<br />

GRAS source – ruminant Sources – Source – aqueous extracts from Japan: approved<br />

fourth stomach (abomasum). abomasum fourth stomach of calves, kids or<br />

FDA 21CFR § 184.1685, of calf, kid lambs. Permitted in or upon<br />

GRAS; USDA 9CFR § 318.7 or lamb unstandardised milk-based dessert<br />

(rennet-treated calcium preparations, cheese, cottage<br />

reduced dried milk and cheese, cream cheese, cream cheese<br />

calcium lactate, limitation with named <strong>additives</strong>, cream cheese<br />

3.5% in sausages), 381.147 spread, cream cheese spread with<br />

named <strong>additives</strong>

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