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Evaluating the effect of plant protein functionalities on the performance of high-protein plant-based cheese

2025· article· en· W4412496673 on OpenAlexafffund
Stacie Dobson, Alejandro G. Marangoni

Bibliographic record

VenueFood Chemistry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicProteins in Food Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersGovernment of SaskatchewanNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Research CouncilCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchNational Research Council CanadaCanada Foundation for InnovationUniversity of Saskatchewan
KeywordsPlant proteinChemistryFood science

Abstract

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Commercial plant-based cheese lack dairy cheese's nutritional properties and functionality. Eleven plant proteins were studied in an 18 %w/w protein and 12 %w/w waxy starch plant-based cheese to determine the relationship between protein functionality and cheese performance. Higher cheese hardness was associated with greater melt, stretch, and oil loss, with a positive correlation between tanδ and increased sample melt in kinetic melting tests. Proteins of high purity (>70 %), low solubility, low emulsion stability and high water-holding capacity result in the best cheese performance. Through FTIR spectromicroscopy and computed tomography, it was confirmed that proteins which behave as passive fillers in the cheese matrix allow the waxy starch to remain as a continuous network and have superior melt and stretch properties. Conversely, cheese that exhibited poor melting and stretch properties were associated with proteins having high solubility and/or low purity, low water-holding capacity, and high emulsifying stability causing disruption of the starch structure.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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