The question of the chemical identity of caseinogen and casein and with it, of the nature of rennet action, still remains open in spite of many attempts at a solution. Hammarsten suggested that by the action of rennet, caseinogen was hydrolysed to form two new proteins, casein and whey-protein.
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Arthur Geake (1914) studied this question.