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Fermented milk from Vietnam

Sữa chua (Vietnamese condensed-milk yoghurt)sữa chua

Sữa chua is Vietnamese yoghurt, often made at home from sweetened condensed milk diluted with water and seeded with a little plain yoghurt, then set warm in small jars. As a yoghurt it falls under the Vietnamese fermented-milk standard TCVN 7030:2009, which follows Codex CXS 243 and requires the two yoghurt bacteria.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Sữa chua itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Set yoghurt (industrial), the closest documented fermented milk ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Sữa chua.

Short entryFermented milk

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedNo tested home recipe was found that could be opened; the amounts vary by household.
Sweetened condensed milkDiluted with hot and room-temperature water
Plain yoghurtA few spoons as the starter
Starterbackslop: a few spoons of plain yoghurt

Total time across the steps of Set yoghurt (industrial): 4.2 h – 5.1 h

Start
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65–70 °C

What changes: Milk powder is mixed in and the fat is broken into tiny globules

Step 1 of 5 · steps of Set yoghurt (industrial)
Standardise, deaerate and homogenise
Time
Not documented
Temperature
65–70 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
S. thermophilus
L. delbrueckii

Output: standardised, homogenised yoghurt milk.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
fat globules made smaller, so no cream layer forms in the cup
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

none added yet

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Sữa chua is Vietnamese yoghurt, often made at home from sweetened condensed milk diluted with water and seeded with a little plain yoghurt, then set warm in small jars. As a yoghurt it falls under the Vietnamese fermented-milk standard TCVN 7030:2009, which follows Codex CXS 243 and requires the two yoghurt bacteria. Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, the cultures that define yoghurt in Codex CXS 243 does most of the fermenting.

What makes this one different

Sữa chua is usually made from sweetened condensed milk rather than fresh milk, which makes it sweeter and denser than most set yoghurts.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Sữa chua đáServed over crushed ice.
  • Sữa chua nếp cẩmWith black sticky rice.
  • Sữa chua cà phêWith strong coffee.

Safety

Codex CXS 243 requires yoghurt to reach at least 0.6 % lactic acid and to hold live starter bacteria at 10^7 cfu/g or more until the end of shelf life. This defines the product and does not test a home batch.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [codex243] Codex Alimentarius, Standard for Fermented Milks CXS 243-2003 (adopted in Vietnam as TCVN 7030:2009)spec
  2. [tcvn-summary] Hệ thống pháp luật, summary of TCVN 7030:2009 (Codex Stan 243-2003) on fermented milksweb