Re: furosine level in goat milk?

"Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Furosine is used as an indicator for the intensity of heat treatment in milk
> products.
> Does any one know the level of furosine in raw goat milk?
> 
> Barbara
Are you thinking that goat milk having more flavor than cows milk is
due to the degradation of milk proteins that is why you are interested
in finding the level of  furosine?
 As far as I know furosine is  one of the degradation product of 
amino acid lysine which occurs during heat treatment of proteinaceous
products.
That is why it is used as one of the indicators of milk heat treatment
as that will reflect on the resulting values.
And its difficult to find of furosine values for any raw milk either .

If you have the facilites (HPLC equipment)and well versed in the
determination of this unusual amino acid furosine; you might as well
ran the analysis your self.
You cannot find that data in most books of dairy chemistry.
Roy