ABSTRACT

Dierent cultural origins, sources, and processing methods have diversied soured milk into a variety of products such as dahi, dadih, ker, koumiss, langl, and viili (Mistry 2004; Chen et  al. 2006; Dharmawan et al. 2006). Viili is a ropy fermented milk that originated in Scandinavia. e name viili is Swedish and describes mesophilic fermented milk that is claimed to have various functional benets and the potential to improve health (Kitazawa et  al. 1991, 1993, 1996; Nakajima et al. 1992; Ruas-Madiedo et al. 2006; Chiang et al. 2011).