Edible cream-like mass: better quality, higher productivity

Abstract

Edible cream-like mass has a number of advantages over other confectionery masses. Being more efficient in production, they are also more digestible, more popular, and have a gentle creamy structure. However, they also have a number of drawbacks such as inconsistency, low porosity, high sugar capacity and caloric content. It is not just the chemical composition of ingredients or their basic physical, structural, and mechanical properties, but also the design of whipping machines and the whipping settings that affect the way such pastes develop their creamy structure and other properties. The paper evaluates the production of sugar-less maltodextrin-based cream-like pastes using a highly efficient experimental semi-industrial whipping machine. For production, we used high-DE maltodextrin as well as special fats. We have studied how the ratio of ingredients could affect the quality and the structural-mechanical properties of such mass. We have managed to optimize the recipes to assure the best quality. The samples we produced are of better quality, lower sugar capacity and caloric content. Realization of the presented development will allow one to intensify production process twice, to lower power - and labor input of production, prime cost of products 1.5 times, content of digestible carbohydrates by 50%, the caloric content of products by 126 kcal, to reduce floor spaces.