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Commercial use of milk protein

  • It is used in plastic industries to make casein plastic from which different plasti materials can be prepared like comb, button, umbrella handles, electric insulating materials, etc.
  • It is chiefly used in baking industries to prepare varieties of chocolates, breads and biscuits
  • It has also got pharmaceutical value to prepare tonics and proteinules
  • Recent use of casein is in manufacturing casein fibber called urlet which is used in substitution of wool.
  • It is also used in leather and textile industries
  • It is used in paints factories to produce high quality paints
  • It is used in cement factory for the plasticity of cement
  • It is used in paper industries for producing high quality writing paper and wall paper.

 

 

d) Phosphoproteins: Phosphate is linked chemically to these proteins—examples include casein in milk and phosphoproteins in egg yolk.

 

e) Lipoproteins: These combinations of lipid and protein are excellent emulsifying agents. Lipoproteins are found in milk and egg yolk.

 

f) Chromoprotein: These are proteins with a Coloured prosthetic group and include hemoglobin and myoglobin.

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