Fruit and vegetable powder is prepared from the juice, pulp, and fruit of fruits and vegetables after dehydration into powder or crumbles. All or part of the fruit and vegetable taste, fiber, color, nutrition and other ingredients are retained. It becomes a healthy ingredient for producing the taste and flavor of food.
Around 2000, fruit & vegetable powder began to gradually enter the food ingredients market. At first, it was mainly used in convenience foods, and then gradually used in functional solid beverages, pressed confectionery, and flavorings. By 2010, functional solid beverages such as: probiotic powder, enzyme powder, protein powder, meal replacement powder and so on. Most of them started to use fruit and vegetable product powder for flavoring. Advantages are natural health, easy to apply, reduce the flavor development time, product properties are more stable.
Until now, fruits and vegetables powder has become an indispensable ingredient for natural flavoring. The use of unlimited, without any safety risks. And gradually increase the demand for functional fruit powder. For example: acerola cherry powder, prickly pear powder, cranberry powder, elderberry and so on.
Fruit and vegetable powder products are categorized according to the production process: spray drying, freeze drying, drum drying, hot air drying:
1. Spray drying fruit and vegetable powder:
Mainly the use of fruit juice, juice concentrate. Pulp through the instantaneous high-temperature spray drying and become.
The advantages of the product are fine powder, uniform color and taste, good rehydration, stable traits. The production process is easy to control, the production of moderate energy consumption and other advantages, large capacity.
Disadvantages:
The product needs to use excipients as a carrier, the juice content should not be too high. Color and flavor in the process of some of the loss, heat-sensitive materials are easy to oxidize, hygroscopicity. Fruit and vegetable spray dried powder is still the mainstream product, more and more recognized by the market.
2. Freeze-dried fruit and vegetable powder:
Mainly using frozen fruit after low-temperature vacuum conditions, sublimation of water in the fruit. Thus obtaining dried fruit, which can be made into whole, sliced, diced and ground into powder.
The advantages of fruit and vegetable freeze dried powder are: to be able to retain most of the flavor and color of fruits and vegetables. It maintains no loss of nutrients, retains 100% of the solids of fruits and vegetables, has a high fiber content, and has good rehydration.
The disadvantages are: high power consumption, easy to change color, not resistant to high temperature, poor solubility. Due to the cost and solubility constraints, the application of the product also has certain limitations.
3. Drum drying fruit and vegetable powder:
Mainly for varieties with high starch content, after pulping through the drum drying. Made into flakes, powder products.
Advantage lies in the low energy consumption, stable product properties
The disadvantage is that the product limitations, only a few products suitable for this drying method, can not be popularized.
4. hot air drying fruit and vegetable powder:
Mainly for fruits and vegetables and other stems and leaves after rinsing, drying with hot air dryer. Then make powder or granule. Product properties are stable, general rehydration, low energy consumption, health indicators are more difficult to control, after sterilization before use. Generally vegetable products with this way more, the earliest used in instant noodle seasoning packets. Hot air drying fruit and vegetable powder with the improvement of pretreatment technology, applicability is more and more extensive.
Fruit and vegetable bulk powder due to the production process, fruit characteristics and other factors that determine its applicability.
Spray drying is easily soluble in water and is the best ingredient to provide the taste of fruit juice.
Freeze dried vegetable and fruit powder is rich in fruit fiber, real taste, high cost. Mostly used in foreign breakfast cereals, domestic application is relatively small.
Hot air drying is low cost, difficult to control health indicators, need to be sterilized and then used, increasing the cost of use, product stability is not strong.
Roller drying fruit and vegetable bulk powder is mainly a few fruits and vegetables with high starch content, such as purple potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and so on.
Overall, spray drying fruit and vegetable product powder has more varieties. Wider applicability, production efficiency, product quality, cost-effective are more advantageous, the market prospect is broad.
What Are Applications Of Fruit and vegetable powder?
1. Protein-based solid drinks:
Used to enrich the flavor of the product, or correct the fishy taste of fish collagen. Commonly used flavors are: strawberry, banana, blueberry, sweet orange, papaya and so on.
2. Sports solid drinks:
Used to increase the taste of the product, cover or correct the odor of vitamins or minerals. Commonly used flavors are: grapefruit, lime, orange, peach and so on;
3. Meal replacement powder:
Includes fruit and vegetable powder meal replacement, grain meal replacement powder, milkshake meal replacement powder and other categories. Commonly used flavors are: banana, pineapple, mulberry, kiwi, cinnamon, lychee and so on;
4. Probiotic powder:
Used to adjust the product flavor. Commonly used flavors are: apple, pineapple, kiwi, red cherry, blueberry, cranberry and so on;
5. Enzyme powder:
Most of the sources of enzymes are fruits and vegetables, used to enrich the taste of the product, increase the fruit flavor characteristics, commonly used flavors are: pineapple, papaya, kiwi, dragon fruit, blueberries and so on;
6. Infant rice powder:
The main sweet flavor is mainly to adjust the taste of rice powder, commonly used flavors are: orange, apple, banana, blueberry, carrot, spinach, honey, loquat and so on;
7. Pressure tablet candy:
Containing chewable tablets, effervescent tablets, milk tablets, etc., to enhance the taste of fruit juice, commonly used flavors are orange, lemon powder, peach powder, strawberry, mango, tropical fruits;
8. Puffed food:
Contains potato chips, popcorn, roll core crisp, for flavoring powder texture base, commonly used flavors are: mango, cucumber, lemon, blueberry, strawberry, pineapple and so on;
9. Chocolate food:
Contains sandwich cookies, coated cookies, chocolate coating materials, white chocolate, etc., add fruit and vegetable powder to increase the color and taste, commonly used flavors are: strawberry powder, mango, blueberries, kiwi, lemon, durian and so on.
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