Teste de homologação do processamento e da qualidade do queijo coalho enriquecido com tucumã (Astrocaryum aculeatum meyer)

Abstract

The cheese curd is a highly consumed nourishment among people from different social classes and cultures, being of high nutritional value and recognized due its importance in human alimentation. The production of this cheese is fully hand-made, its primary feedstock is raw milk from bubalina, caprinae and bovinae. In order to offer a regional alternative to the local industry, the present research had as its main goal to test the production of cheese curds grown with tucumã flakes, aiming the measured marketing of this new product. The used method involved the production of cheese curd with tucumã flakes added using the respective percents between pulp and milk: 30 + 70 (A cheese), 40 + 60 (B cheese) and 50 + 50 (C cheese) utilizing The Good Practice Production Technique until its final configuration, from this production there was the necessity of physical-chemical analysis, sensorial and microbiological of the new product from the Physical-Chemical Lab of Food from INPA. From the results obtained through the tested samples a greater acceptance can be observed in the product developed in the 30 + 70 proportion where the same even presented a better sensorial and nutritional profile that reached the estabilished parameters of quality with its hundredth composition of 54,85% of humidity, 3,99% of ashes, 18,87% of protein, 17,07% of lipids, 5,23% of carbs, 250,03 Kcal of energy and mineral profile with 139,6 mg of Ca, 20,86 mg of Mg, 286,16 mg of K, 506,18 mg of Na, 0,14mg of Mn, traces of Cu, 1,25mg of Zn and 0,55mg of Fe. The microbiological results were in accordance with the one praised by the law of RDC 12 of 2001, being able to represent a new alternative to the agribusiness of milk products, broadening the commercial options of different products to consumers with the added value on the final product. With the results acquired through this research, the dairy company, Autalac, which a partnership on the research, through its associate owner showed interest in the production of this new deliverable and offer it to the Market until january of 2018.