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PROCESSING METHODS:

FLAVOURING

 

Blending is a means of dispensing additional components or ingredients into an existing food system, uniform distribution of ingredients/components



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Helene Coetzee

Yoghurt types

Individual processes

Legislation

Energy requirements

Suppliers

Other sites

Additional ingredients may be added

- before fermentation for set, long-life set yoghurt

- after fermentation for stirred, long-life stirred, drinking and frozen yoghurt

  • pasteurised fruit is added
  • drinking yoghurt : fruit juice, stabilizers and sugars also added
  • frozen yoghurt:
    • soft serve products contains about 80% yoghurt and 20% fruit syrup base and emulsifiers and stabilisers
    • hard frozen yoghurt contains about 65% yoghurt and 35% fruit syrup base and emulsifiers and stabilisers
  • in line mixers with a gentle stirring action are used to disperse the fruit evenly throughout the yoghurt
  • requirements set by the legislation must be met and adhered to
  • fruit can be manually added to the yoghurt in the vessel (batch blending).
  • continuous blending consists of three units
    • metering device to ensure the correct amount of fruit per volume yoghurt added
    • metering device for the yoghurt
    • mixing chamber to ensure uniform distribution of the fruit.

 

Fruit mixer

 

(Graphics courtesy of Tetra Pak Processing Systems)

Figure:fruit mixer incorporated into the pipe