pasteurize
to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
Origin of pasteurize
1- Also especially British, pas·teur·ise .
Other words from pasteurize
- pas·teur·i·za·tion, noun
- su·per·pas·teur·ized, adjective
- ul·tra·pas·teur·ized, adjective
- un·pas·teur·ized, adjective
Words Nearby pasteurize
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How to use pasteurize in a sentence
The banks screen milk donors for health conditions, pasteurize the milk, and distribute it to the babies who need it most—often those in neonatal intensive care units.
How Parents Should Handle the Baby Formula Shortage, According to Pediatricians | Melody Schreiber | May 27, 2022 | TimeTo pasteurize milk we heat it to a temperature of not over 170 Fahrenheit for from ten minutes to half an hour.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterTo pasteurize milk in the home, proceed in the manner illustrated in Fig. 3.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThey will tell these mothers why it is necessary to pasteurize the milk before feeding it to the baby.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) | Grant HagueApparatus of sufficient capacity to pasteurize on a commercial scale.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition | H. L. Russell
Unless the milk is perfectly fresh, and has been handled with great care, it is safer to sterilize or pasteurize it.
Public School Domestic Science | Mrs. J. Hoodless
British Dictionary definitions for pasteurize
pasteurise
/ (ˈpæstəˌraɪz, -stjə-, ˈpɑː-) /
to subject (milk, beer, etc) to pasteurization
rare to subject (a patient) to pasteurism
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