These conventionalproducts were
∗ Corresponding authors at: Dairy Processing, Laboratory of National Dairy Production
Technology and Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia
010018, PR China.
E-mail addresses: wjliu168@163.com (W. Liu), sts9940@sina.com (T. Sun),
hepingdd@vip.sina.com (H. Zhang).
made primarily by natural fermentation without the use of any
commercial starter cultures, and the natural cultures were subsequently
used to inoculate fresh milk in the next day. In this way,
ethnic minority persons in Inner Mongolia have developed their
own characteristic fermented dairy products. Meanwhile, the specific
microflora in these traditional dairy products has been formed
and handed down