Omics analysis for dairy: lipidomics:The lipids in milk

摘要

Last issue, Emeritus Professor Hilton Deeth examined proteomics - one of the latest 'omics' analyses for dairy proteins - introducing them to dairy processors and describing their uses. In this article, he looks at lipidomics, the corresponding 'omics' method for analysing lipids. It's a study that has led to identifying a large number of individual milk lipids, many of which were not known to be present in milk until just a few years ago. With a consideration that milk fat contains several thousandlipid species, lipidomics has plenty of work. It also has huge potential for substantiating the provenance of specifically designated regional cheese varieties.