Fat-coating of spices, salts and icing sugar
The article describes the challenge of uniformly coating powders like spices, salts, and icing sugar with food fat to achieve hydrophobic, dust-free, free-flowing, low-adhesion products that maintain their original appearance. Amixon recommends its HM twin-shaft mixer for low-energy, dead-space-free mixing and notes that when the fat must solidify, effective cooling with minimal mechanical movement is essential to avoid reheating. Achieving near-complete particle coverage requires extensive testing and precise process control. The company also emphasizes the easy-to-clean, hygienic design of its mixers and dryers.
At first glance, it is not obvious whether this product is coated with food fat or not.
The coating of powder particles is a rare and complicated mixing task. The goal is to coat the entire powder surface.
Coating of all particles with food fat. Complete coating is demanding. Good result from the amixon® mixer: At first glance, it is not recognisable whether this product is coated with food fat or not.
This is always important when powdered spice mixtures, ground salts or ground sugar are to be completely coated with a layer of fat. This protects the powders from external influences. Ideally, the following results are achieved:
- hydrophobic
- dust-free
- free-flowing and easy to dose
- low adhesion
- looks like the original mixture
amixon® recommends the use of the HM twin-shaft mixer. Here, mixing without dead space takes place with minimal energy input. If the potting material is to change its aggregate state from LIQUID to SOLID, it must be cooled. The cooling process is all the more effective the less the powder is moved mechanically. This is because the mixing work introduced dissipates into the product heating.
To achieve good coating results, extensive test series are necessary. If all process parameters are correct, each particle is coated almost one hundred percent with grease. Further information can be found here!
amixon® powder mixers and dryers are easy to clean: Optionally dry or wet, manually or automatically. amixon® convinces with comprehensive hygiene expertise across all mixer components. Read more here!
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