A rich, complex flavor can truly set a baked good above the rest. And while familiar, traditional flavors can make customers fall in love with your brand, out-of-the-box profiles can take it to a whole new level! The possibilities are practically endless when it comes to flavors in baking.Typically, they are added to food [...]
Ball Mill Also known as dry ball milling What is a ball mill? A ball mill is a size reduction or milling equipment which uses two grinding mechanisms, namely, impact and shear.1 Unlike other size reduction equipment, such as breakers and jaw crushers, ball mills are capable of producing powders and particulate [...]
If your goal is to clean up your label, or at least make it as natural as your can, you’ll eventually run into replacing artificial flavors with natural ones. While they may not get as much focus in clean label discussion as dough conditioners or emulsifiers, natural flavors are something that’s essential to get right. Customers [...]
Alpha-cyclodextrin Also known as alpha-dextrin (α-CD) or alpha-cycloamylose What is Alpha-cyclodextrin? Alpha-cyclodextrin has emulsifying and stabilizing properties. It can also eliminate undesirable compounds. In the food industry, alpha dextrins are used for: Stabilizing oil-in-water emulsions Controlling the solubility and dispersibility of un-mixable liquids Masking odors and unwanted flavors Stabilizing and protecting compounds [...]
What’s the best part about baked goods? The way they smell and taste, of course! It’s easy to forget that at the end of the day, taste is the key driver for better sales. But from a production standpoint, taste and aroma can be hard to quantify—and keep consistent! In this episode, Dr. Lin [...]
To help combat the growing childhood obesity challenge, the UK sugar reduction program challenges all sectors of the food and drinks industry to reduce overall sugar across a range of products by at least 20% before 2020. The guidance suggests "reducing sugar levels in products, reducing portion size, or shifting purchasing towards lower sugar alternatives."We [...]
Flavors What are Flavors? Flavors are the entire range of sensations we perceive when we eat a food: taste, aroma, tactile and to some extent kinesthetic, temperature and pain sensations. Whether present naturally or added to baked goods, they are one of the largest single factors affecting our choice to purchase an [...]
Chocolate What is Chocolate? Chocolate is a mixture of cocoa powder, cocoa butter and sugar. Cocoa is obtained from the seeds of the cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao, which means “food of the Gods.” Various combinations of cocoa butter and cocoa mass are used in bakery applications and coatings to provide unique colors [...]
