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Applications > Beverages > RECOMBINED
BEVERAGES
Recombined beverages
Where fresh milk is not readily
available, recombined milk manufacture is common. Given
New Zealand's major milk powder production, a significant
percentage of powder finds its way into recombined
milk applications. Usually, the milk is produced as
a long life product and based on milk powder, butter
or vegetable fat, water, emulsifiers and stabilisers,
along with other ingredients to enhance appeal and
nutritional content.
| Ingredient
Functionality |
Ingredient
and Benefits |
| Acidity
regulators and buffering agents |
| Dairy
systems can be tricky. Balancing the available
calcium with protein can mean the difference
between stability and disaster. |
There
are several buffer salts that can be used in
dairy systems. ADM Sodium
Citrate is a good starting point.
Phosphates such as di-Sodium
Phosphate and Sodium Hexametaphosphate are
excellent at sequestering divalent ions. |
| Cocoa
Products |
| Chocolate
milk is the most popular flavoured recombined
milk, with the most critical ingredient being
cocoa powder. Select the right quality cocoa
powder and many of the other formulation problems
take care of themselves. |
ADM cocoa
powders can provide the right flavour
and colour for the right application.
Typical cocoa powders include:
ADM De Zaan 250DP11
"A mildly alkalised cocoa with good colour and flavour"”
ADM De Zaan D11S
“ A rich European-style cocoa
with rich flavour, dark brown in appearance"”
Important quality attributes also include nib and
shell content, and microbial levels, both of which are very low in
ADM cocoas. In addition, ADM cocoa powders have defined particle
size profiles, allowing for easier suspension.
 HWL
has many more products available. Please contact
us for further information. |
| Colours |
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HWL offers
a comprehensive range of natural and
artificial colours for use in all food and beverage applications.
Our suppliers, Cathay Industries, DD
Williamson and Phytone,
cover the colour spectrum. |
| Emulsifiers |
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Palsgaard offers
a range of integrated emulsifiers and
stabilisers specifically for use in recombined milk applications.
These can be added to cold water or milk, and
will activate during pasteurisation to give
good emulsification, stability and mouthfeel. |
| Flavours |
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Symrise has
vast expertise in flavour requirements for
dairy products, as well as ensuring compatibility
of the flavour with the milk system and the
marketplace. |
| Gums
and hydrocolloids |
Gum selection
for recombined milks usually falls into two categories:
suspension of particles, such as cocoa powder
and minerals, or to provide mouthfeel.
Integrated products such as the Palsgaard 5800 series should also
be considered.
HWL can offer ingredients that can fulfil all these requirements. |
FMC
BioPolymer range of Seakem Carrageenans are
designed for use in flavoured milks. Each
carrageenan is standardised for milk protein
reactivity. Seakem Carrageenan can
be dosed at 100 - 300 ppm to give suspension
of insoluble ingredients such as cocoa powder
or minerals and mouthfeel.
FMC BioPolymer Novagel
Colloidal Microcrystalline Cellulose forms an insoluble
3-dimensional network in flavoured milk which suspends insoluble
particulate
material. It also increases opacity, prevents fat coalescing
and acts as a fat mimetic to give mouthfeel. We have found
Novagel MCC to be particularly useful in low protein applications,
and in UHT products where the product is transported in unrefrigerated
containers.
FMC
BioPolymer Products Selection Grid — Beverage Systems  |
| Minerals |
Many
manufacturers chose to add additional minerals
to flavoured milks. Typically these include
calcium in a number of formats, but other minerals
can also be added.
See our Minerals
section |
Jost
Chemicals has developed unique
new technology for manufacturing ultra-pure calcium salts with
very low levels of aluminium, lead, manganese,
iron and other vagrant metals. Jost
also has a comprehensive range of purity
salts including ascorbates, carbonates,
citrates, fumarates, gluconates, lactates,
malates, nitrates, phosphates, succinates
and sulphates.
Kirsch
Pharma also supplies
HWL with a comprehensive range of high quality inorganic
mineral salts for use in beverage fortification. |
| Sweeteners |
| HWL
offers a range of sweeteners including ADM Cornsweet
Fructose, which can be used in products where
sweetness profile and glucose content need to
controlled. |
ADM Cornsweet
Fructose is a crystalline sweetener
with 1.2 - 1.6 times the sweetness of sucrose.
ADM Cornsweet Fructose also has a low glycaemic
index and can enhance the flavour profile
in some products such as chocolate drinks.
High Intensity sweeteners such as sucralose and acesulphame K are also available. |
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