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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