Whole Milk Powder

Category
Regions:
Australia New Zealands Europe USA
Types:
Spray Drying
Colours:
Pale cream
Whole milk powder is yielded by eliminating water from pasteurized milk via spray-drying. The powder is included between 26% and 40% milkfat (by weight) and provided all of the nutritional content of milk in a dry form.

It includes the addition of a component of the cream in the skim milk in order to generate milk with a standardized fat level of 26-30% fat in the powder. The next stage is preheating, which involves heating the standardized milk to a temperature of 75 to 120 C, either directly or indirectly. Evaporation and spray drying is a procedure that involves atomizing the milk concentrate from the evaporator into small droplets and removing between 2-4% of the moisture content for longer shelf life.

Additional Information

Whole Milk Powder (WMP) is a pasteurized milk product that has several of the water eliminated. The fat and protein content of the milk being modified to achieve the component specification, by enhancing or eliminating the milk constituents that the whey protein to casein proportion of the milk being modified was not affected. It's white to light cream in colour and has a smooth, pleasant flavour. Skimming the water out of pasteurized, homogenized, or non-homogenized milk is a common method of producing dry whole milk.