Enter the available milk volume and follow its potential journey from cheddar manufacture to whey ingredient production. BasisOrigin estimates the cheese and liquid whey generated, then shows the indicative powder output for four routes: whey powder, WPC34, WPC80 and WPI.
Use a typical scale as a starting point, or enter your own milk volume. The model recalculates automatically.
Indicative outputs for alternative processing routes
- 5.63 tWhey powder
- 2.07 tWPC34 powder
- 0.75 tWPC80 powder+ 4.50 twhey permeate powder
- 0.49 tWPI powder+ 0.25 thigh-fat WPC powder+ 5.56 twhey permeate powder
BasisOrigin is an indicative planning and educational tool. It uses simplified fixed internal assumptions and BasisFlow-derived theoretical yield factors to estimate potential product quantities. The downstream routes are alternatives, not simultaneous processing routes for the same whey pool. Actual factory yields and product composition will vary with milk and whey composition, cheese type and moisture, component recoveries, process configuration, operating conditions and losses. The outputs should not be treated as plant-validated engineering guarantees, production specifications or a substitute for a site-specific mass balance.
Start from a typical volume
Choose a typical scale to see how the model works, or enter your own milk volume. All outputs update automatically.