pasteurisation

«pasteurisation» in Mova's school dictionary: heating milk, juice or other food to a set temperature… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (pasteurisation, uncountable); US and international spelling «pasteurization»; verb: pasteurise / pasteurize

meaning for a pupil

1) Pasteurisation is heating milk, juice or other food to a set temperature for a short time to kill harmful germs, then cooling it quickly. tree →

2) It is named after the French scientist Louis Pasteur, who showed that tiny microbes make food go bad and cause disease. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of how microbes can be killed by heat and how science made food safer; pasteurised milk lasts longer in the fridge and is much less likely to make you ill. It is not the same as boiling: the milk is heated less, so it still tastes like milk. Phrases: «pasteurised milk», «unpasteurised cheese», «the process of pasteurisation».

examples

• Pasteurisation kills harmful bacteria in milk. tree →
• Most milk in shops has gone through pasteurisation. tree →
• Louis Pasteur discovered the idea behind pasteurisation. tree →
• Pasteurised juice keeps longer than freshly squeezed juice. tree →
• Pregnant women are often told to avoid unpasteurised cheese. tree →
• In one common method, milk is heated to about 72 °C for 15 seconds. tree →
• Our science poster showed the steps of pasteurisation. tree →

note

Uncountable. UK spelling with «s», US with «z»; both are correct. Pasteurisation does not kill every microbe, so milk still needs a fridge. It is not sterilisation, which kills everything.

In the corpora

• From the farm the milk travels cold in a tanker to the dairy, where a quick heating called pasteurisation kills the germs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pasteurisation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.