casein

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casein

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Alternative forms

• caseine (dated)

Etymology

From French caséine, formed from Latin cāseus (“cheese”) + -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.siː.ɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

casein (countable and uncountable, plural caseins)

1. (biochemistry) A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants
   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese. The whey proteins play a more minor role; they influence the texture of casein curds, and stabilize the milk foams on specialty coffees.

Synonyms

• legumine (archaic)

Derived terms

• azocasein
• casamino
• casamino acid
• caseinase
• caseinate
• caseinogen
• caseinolysis
• caseinolytic
• caseose
• noncasein
• paracasein
• vegetable casein

Translations

protein

Catalan: caseïna f Chinese: Mandarin: 酪蛋白 (zh) (làodànbái) Czech: kasein m Danish: kasein n Esperanto: kazeino Finnish: kaseiini (fi) French: caséine (fr) f Galician: caseína (gl) f Ido: kazeino (io) Italian: caseina (it) f Japanese: 乾酪素 (ja) (かんらくそ, kanrakuso) Macedonian: казеи́н m (kazeín) Maori: pūmua kuruwhatu Norwegian: Bokmål: kasein n Nynorsk: kasein n Persian: کازئین (kâze'-in) Polish: kazeina (pl) f Portuguese: caseína f Spanish: caseína (es) f Swedish: kasein (sv) n

Further reading

• casein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Caines, Našice, aescin, cesian, in case, incase