Frozen confection manufacture
AssigneeMagnum Icc US, LLC
InventorsMansoor Ahmed Ansari, Georgios Tetradis-Mairis
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Abstract
Disclosed is a process for manufacturing a concentrate for making a premix for a frozen confection, wherein the concentrate is in the form of granules. The process comprises the steps of: (a) forming an oil-in-water emulsion wherein the fat droplets in the emulsion have an average particle size (D3,2) of less than 1 micron, the emulsion comprising fat in an amount of at least 65% by weight of the emulsion; (b) providing powder comprising saccharides, non-saccharide sweetener and/or protein; (c) combining, in a granulation step, the powder and the emulsion to form a mixture with a moisture content of less than 10% by weight of the mixture, wherein the emulsion binds the powder into granules; and (d) recovering the granules from step (c).
Claims15
A process for manufacturing a concentrate for making a premix for a frozen confection, wherein the concentrate is in the form of granules and the process comprises the steps of:
- (a) forming an oil-in-water emulsion wherein the fat droplets in the emulsion have an average particle size characterised by the surface weighted diameter D3,2 of less than 1 micron, the emulsion comprising fat in an amount of from 70 to 87% by weight of the emulsion;
- (b) providing powder comprising saccharides, non-saccharide sweetener and/or protein, the powder including 45-95 wt % saccharides by weight of the powder;
- (c) combining, in a granulation step, the powder and the emulsion to form a mixture with a moisture content of less than 10% by weight of the mixture, wherein the emulsion binds the powder into granules;
- and (d) recovering the granules from step (c), the mixture is not being subjected to a drying step during the process of manufacturing the granules.
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