Protein Stabilized Food Emulsions

Many food products are emulsions (eg. milk cream, ice creams, cream, butter etc.) and protein constituents often play a major role in the stabilization of these colloidal systems. In the fresh milk, soluble proteins are immunoglobulins. Homogenization of milk increases emulsion stability because it reduces the size of  fat globules and   because newly formed casein submicelles displace   the immunoglobulins and adsorb to fat globules.