WHY WE CAN'T WORK ON WEIGHTS WHEN MEASURING CULTURES

WHY WE CAN'T WORK ON WEIGHTS WHEN MEASURING CULTURES?

On the sachets of the SACCO cultures, the name of the culture is displayed, example: SACCO LYOFAST MW TA 035 TA - 10 U

The 10 U indicates that the sachet is enough to inoculate 1 000 L of milk.

The sachets will however differ in weight from batch to batch, it all depends on the nutrients that the batches is grown in - so even if a sachet's weight decrease, or increase the amount of colony-forming units per sachet i.e. the "strength" will always be the same. 

10 U will always contain enough bacteria to inoculate 1 000 L of milk, irrespective of the weight of the sachet's content.