Processing treatments for baby food - Powder Liquid Mixer

 INTRODUCTION:

The newborns are exposed to a broad range of solid foods in the first two years of their life. During this period, their nutritional intake increases, and eating skills are also developed. Therefore, the manufacturers constantly need to add value to their infant and toddler food range through innovations related to safety, convenience, and nutrition. 

Processing treatments for baby food and infant formula

 

After meticulous research by our specialized food production and technology experts, Wahal Process Technologies Pvt. Ltd offer solutions that will meet the manufacturer’s needs and enable them to fulfill the growing demands of retailers and consumers. With our optimal solutions, they can produce a wide range of baby foods – from infant formula and ready-to-drink products to fruit purees.

The Wahal Engineer Powder Induction Mixer modifies the powder/liquid mixture. Unlike most powder / liquid mixers, which use the vacuum to extract powders, the Powder Induction Mixer literally forces the powder into a liquid stream. This not only allows it to spread and add more water to the powder but can be used at higher temperatures and viscosity mixes.

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Formulation of infant and toddler foods:

The success of infant and toddler foods is based on certain elements of product development such as safety, product purity (i.e., clean label), and developmental appropriateness.

Convenience and nutrition are major drivers that influence practically every aspect of the product and package development. Infant and toddler products are usually shelf-stable and represent a fairly broad cross-section of food types such as - instant cereals, purees, bakery, and snack items (teething biscuits, zwieback toast, and arrowroot cookies), rice instant cereals, and more.

Advantages of our mixers and homogenizers for the baby food manufacturing firms: 

1. By using our mixers, you can process the foods by hot-fill-hold or retort methods with a very low probability of spoilage or pathogen survival. 

2. They offer vacuum in processes.

3. Our mixers have conservative parameters for thermal processing and offer high standards for raw materials, packaging materials, and process control. 

4. They offer a significant improvement to particle size reduction for infant foods by grinding the fruits and vegetables before they are cooked, producing a coarse puree heated quickly to inactivate degrading enzymes. 

Let’s explore the variety of mixers available. 

1. Powder Liquid Mixing Machine as Powder Liquid Mixer

Powder liquid mixer works on the principle of Wahal's high-speed powder induction. It is capable of dust-free, loss-free, and contamination-free powder dispersing and mixing. It also includes working heads (i.e., rotor and stator) designed to produce vacuum in the flowing stream of powders induced through silos, stacks, hoppers, and barrels. It is suitable for continuous and batch (re-circulation) processes, ensures no lumps or agglomerates are formed, achieves up to 80% solids in the final product, and does not allow foreign air to get entrapped in the flowing stream.