| Cocoa
Powder |
Colour, Flavour
Chocolate milk is the most
popular flavoured 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. |
De Zaan™ Cocoa
Powder from ADM provides
the right flavour and colour for the right application.
Typical cocoa powders include:
 De
Zaan™ 250-DP-11
"A mildly alkalised cocoa with good
colour and flavour"”
De
Zaan™ D-11-S
“ 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 De Zaan™ cocoas.
Hawkins Watts New Zealand has many more products available. Please contact
us for further information. |
| Natural
Colours, Artificial
Colours |
Colour |
Hawkins
Watts New Zealand offers a comprehensive range of natural
and artificial colours for use in beverage
applications.
Our suppliers, Cathay Industries, DD
Williamson and Phytone,
cover the colour spectrum. |
| Mono
and di-glycerides |
Emulsifier |
Emulsifiers such as mono-di
glycerides can provide emulsification in recombined
products and improve creaminess.
Palsgaard manufactures
a range of specialty emulsifiers, from standard
mono-di glycerides that will disperse in cold
water or milk, through to the Palsgaard
5900 range for recombined milk applications. |
| Flavours |
Flavour |
With
developing sophistication in the flavoured milk area,
consumer tastes are becoming more demanding.
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. |
| Carrageenan |
Gums, hydrocolloids,
thickeners, stabilisers
Gum selection for flavoured milks usually falls into two categories: suspension
of particles, such as cocoa powder and minerals, or to provide mouthfeel. |
The
range of Seakem carrageenans from FMC
BioPolymer 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
and mouthfeel. |
| Microcrystalline
Cellulose (MCC) |
|
Novagel Colloidal
Microcrystalline Cellulose from FMC
BioPolymer 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. |
| Calcium
salts |
Minerals |
Many
manufacturers choose 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 selection
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 Hawkins Watts New Zealand with a
comprehensive range of high quality inorganic
mineral salts for use in beverage
fortification. |
| Antifoam |
Processing
aid |
Foaming
can be a major issue in dairy based systems. Our
range of antifoams includes a choice of silicon-based
and
non-silicon-based
products. |
| Fructose |
Sweeteners |
Cornsweet
Fructose from ADM is
a crystalline sweetener with 1.2 to 1.6 times
the sweetness of sucrose. ADM Cornsweet
Fructose can be used in products where
sweetness profile and glucose content need to be controlled.
ADM Cornsweet Fructose also
has a low glycaemic index and can enhance the
flavour profile in some products such as chocolate
drinks. |
| Stevia |
|
Stevia from Daepyung is
a natural high-intensity sweetener and sugar substitute
extracted from the Stevia plant with applications
in low-sugar
formulations. |
| Sweetness
enhancer |
|
SymLife® Sweet from Symrise is
a flavouring which enhances sweetness, while allowing
sucrose levels to be reduced by as much as 30%. SymLife® Sweet works
well in combination with artificial sweeteners
to help round out the aftertaste. |
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