Meaning of cream line | Babel Free

Definitions

The layer of cream that floats to the top of a bottle of milk that has not been homogenized.

Examples

“There is produced, however, at this temperature a cooked taste⟳ and the cream line is reduced to a greater extent than when the milk is heated and blown at 145° F.”

“As pasteurization reduced cream line by about 15% some dairymen slightly under-pasteurized their milk in order⟳ to outsell their competitors.”

“As experts debated its merits, ordinary citizens remained doubtful about pasteurized milk because the heating process⟳ of pasteurization altered one of the elements they used to evaluate⟳ milk's quality: the cream line.”

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