Little Miss Muffet

While Little Miss Muffet may have enjoyed the whey proteins in milk in her own way, modern consumers enjoy whey proteins as the important element in the foam of a cappuccino. 

As we have said, the degree of softness or hardness of a cheese depends on the amount of curds and whey, so we may be able to illustrate the problem with a stylized phase diagram that we could call Little Miss Muffet (LMM) a phase diagram for mixtures of curds and whey. 

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