Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2009
In an earlier paper, one of us (Oosthuizen, 1962) showed that vegetable rennets produce a fall in the viscosity of sodium caseinate solutions which follows the equation of first-order chemical kinetics; but that the proteolysis involved is stronger than that of calf's rennet since the vegetable rennets attack a greater proportion of the casein ensemble.