“…Many reports have shown that the ripening of UF cheese, made from five-fold or fully concentrated milk, is retarded in comparison to traditional cheese ripening (Creamer, Iyer & Lelie`vre, 1987;de Koning, de Boer, Both, & Nooy, 1981;Harper, Iyer, Knighton, & Lelie`vre, 1989;Hickey, van Lawrence, 1989). Hypotheses that have been proposed include the presence of extra whey proteins inhibiting the proteolytic activity of rennet (Creamer et al, 1987) and plasmin (Visser, 1981), the inclusion of denatured whey proteins inhibiting plasminogen activity, the presence of undenatured whey proteins that are resistant to proteolysis and an increase in buffering capacity thought to result in the inhibition of starter cell lysis (Goude´dranche et al, 1981;Saboya et al, 2001).…”