How to Use pasteurize in a Sentence

pasteurize

verb
Definition of pasteurizenext
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  • This pasteurizes the raw eggs, and can be skipped in an eggless recipe.
    — Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The farm pasteurizes the milk and turns some of it into yogurt on the middle floor of the pontoon.
    — Washington Post, 30 June 2019
  • The farm pasteurizes the milk and turns some of it into yoghurt on the middle floor of the pontoon.
    — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
  • Almost all the milk sold in the United States is pasteurized.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Avoid the canned kind; it is pasteurized to have a longer shelf life and doesn't have as much flavor or aroma as the fresh stuff.
    — Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
  • But for foods that are cooked, shelf-stable or pasteurized, the date is usually not the day the food goes bad.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Even though this was the home of Pasteur, pasteurized milk was unavailable there at the time.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Patrons should ask if the cider is pasteurized in those cases.
    — Marina Watts, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Avoid raw milk, which has not been pasteurized, the CDC advises.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • Next, the mash is pressed, filtered and sometimes pasteurized.
    — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Milk is pooled from any number of cows, then pasteurized and packaged.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Instead of a soft cheese, choose options that have been pasteurized.
    — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 22 July 2024
  • The thinking is that when milk is cooked, or pasteurized, many of the flavor-rich enzymes are destroyed.
    — Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
  • On top of that, any milk sold via interstate commerce in the U.S. is required to be pasteurized.
    — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 24 Apr. 2024
  • In terms of food safety, 145 degrees is fine when using sous vide because the long, steady heat pasteurizes the meat.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The milk is pasteurized and homogenized five days a week.
    — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Milk purchased in stores is required to be pasteurized and is safe to drink, officials said.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Also, milk is pasteurized, so if an infected cow’s milk were to get into the system, the virus would be killed.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Drought’s 12-ounce bottle requires three-to-five pounds of fresh fruit to produce, for instance, and the drinks are made in small batches that aren’t heat pasteurized.
    — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • While pasteurized milk might be safe to drink, the same isn’t necessarily true for raw milk.
    — Ed Cara / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2 May 2024
  • Both state and federal health officials say milk is safe to drink, as long as it has been pasteurized.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Caporicci runs one of a few Bay Area ice cream shops licensed to pasteurize ice cream base in-house.
    — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Bird flu represents a new potential threat in raw milk, which has not been pasteurized, a process that kills germs with high heat.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Here’s a look at how pasteurization works and which foods are safer to consume when pasteurized.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Raw milk is milk from cows or other animals that has not been pasteurized.
    — Carma Hassan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Raw milk from cows, sheep, goats and other animals has not been pasteurized.
    — Kathy R. Byrnes, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2017
  • Bovine colostrum is pasteurized and dried into pills or powders that are mixed into a liquid.
    — Rebecca Jaspan, Mph, Rd, Health, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Technical details of how the milk is pasteurized, as well as additional steps to treat the milk, also cut the risk.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 June 2024
  • Health officials have long warned about the dangers of drinking raw milk or raw milk products that have not been pasteurized.
    — Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
  • First, the milk is pasteurized to kill unwanted microbes.
    — Jordan C. Axelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2017

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