An extract from the stomach of lambs and calves used in cheese making to coagulate milk There are also rennets obtained from vegetables such as cardoons
A natural enzyme obtained from the stomach of young cows It is used to curdle milk when making cheese The need to coagulate milk has been well recognised since Roman times, and this can be achieved by the selective use of certain plants or by extracting the enzyme rennet (chymosin and pepsin) from the fourth stomach of the milk-fed calf
An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine
(ren-et) - A natural enzyme obtained from the stomach of young cows It is used to curdle milk when making cheese The need to coagulate milk has been well recognized since Roman times, and this can be achieved by the selective use of certain plants or by extracting the enzyme rennet (chymosin and pepsin) from the fourth stomach of the milk-fed calf
The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk
An extract from the fourth stomach of lambs and calves used in cheese making to coagulate milk or in making junket pudding There are also rennets obtained from vegetables such as cardoons
An extract from the membranes of calves' stomachs which contains rennin, an enzyme that aids in coagulating milk or separating curds from whey Rennet-like enzymes, also used commercially, are produced by selected fungi and bacteria