Effect of oat milk pasteurization type on the characteristics of yogurt

The aim of this study was to produce set-type non-dairy yogurt from oat milk pasteurized by thermal (T) and UV-C (coiled-tube type)-assisted thermal (UV–C-T) processes. The yogurts were produced from untreated, T- (63 °C, 30 min) and UV-C-T-treated (10 cycles, 77.67 J/mL, 60 °C) oat milk by lactic acid fermentation and their microbiological, physicochemical, textural and sensorial changes were monitored for 21 days. The reduction in E. coli K-12 was ca. 5 log cfu/mL for both T and UV-C-T treated samples. Yogurts from UV-C-T-treated oat milk had the highest pH (5–6) and the lowest syneresis value during the storage time. L* (60.9 ± 0.1) and b* (4.9 ± 0.1) values of yogurts from UV-C-T-treated oat milk were lower compared to untreated and T-treated oat milk. Yogurts from UV-C-T-treated oat milk had higher hardness (g) and adhesive forces (g) values than the untreated and T-treated yogurts during the storage time. Moreover, there was no significant difference (P