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Fermented milk from United States

Bulgarian buttermilk (US)Bulgarian buttermilk

Bulgarian buttermilk is a cultured milk sold in the United States. The US standard for cultured milk (21 CFR 131.112), which does not name this product, requires the milk to be pasteurised before the culture goes in and the finished milk to reach at least 0.5 % titratable acidity as lactic acid.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Bulgarian buttermilk itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Cultured buttermilk, the closest documented fermented milk ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Bulgarian buttermilk.

Short entryFermented milk

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedAn industrial product with no fixed batch in any source found.
Cow milkPasteurised or ultra-pasteurised before culturing, as the US cultured milk standard requires[cfr131112]

Total time across the steps of Cultured buttermilk: 18 h

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82 °C

What changes: Heat kills stray bacteria and firms the milk protein

Step 1 of 5 · steps of Cultured buttermilk
Heat the milk
Time
10 min
Reported
Temperature
82 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria

Dairies heat the milk to 90–95 °C for about 5 minutes (Tetra Pak).

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

heat kills competing bacteria

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Bulgarian buttermilk is a cultured milk sold in the United States. The US standard for cultured milk (21 CFR 131.112), which does not name this product, requires the milk to be pasteurised before the culture goes in and the finished milk to reach at least 0.5 % titratable acidity as lactic acid.

Related ferments

Safety

The milk is pasteurised before culturing, as US rules require.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [cfr131112] US Code of Federal Regulations, 21 CFR 131.112 Cultured milk (covers all US cultured milks, not Bulgarian buttermilk by name)gov