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FAQs  
1. What's the difference between the natural flavors and the synthetic flavors?
  2. What is yoghurt drink?
  3. What's the recommendation for liquid milk drinks application?
  4. How to classify the sweets usually?
  5. How to choose flavors in confectionery production?
  6. Attention points in usage of confectionery flavors?
  7. How to control the quality of hard sugars products?
  8. How to control reduction sugar's content in hard sugar?
  9. How to control the moisture capacity of hard sugar?
  10. Is it possible to make the icecream heated directly when it’s being integrated?
  11. Why does the icecream produce a sticking feeling in the mouth?
  12. What roles do the flavors play in instant noodle seasonings?
   

1. What's the difference between the natural flavors and the synthetic flavors?

Natural flavors has higher safety performance, but they are difficult to stabilize quality, big loses of raw materials and hard to obtain – like rising natural flavors price with insufficient supply of raw materials and lowing density.
Manual synthesis natural flavors have stable quality in identical category, and sufficient supply with high density and good stability.


2. What is yoghurt drink?
According to the GB10789-1996 standard, the breast drink is divided into the formulated breast drink and the fermented breast drink two types.
  1. The formulated breast drink:
    It’s made with the fresh breast or the milk powder as raw materials, added with products modulated by water, sugar fluid, savory agent, etc.. That containing protein capacity no lower than 1.0% (m/V) is called the breast drink. That containing protein capacity no lower than 0.7% (m/V) is called the yoghurt drink. .
  2. The fermented breast drink:
    It’s made with the fresh breast or the milk powder as raw materials, a kind of active or non-active tasted product modulated by adding water and sugar fluid in the emulsion which is fermented by hot streptococcus and Bulgaricus yoghurt bacillus,etc.. That containing protein capacity no lower than 1.0% (m/V) is called the acidophilus breast drink. That containing protein capacity no lower than 0.7% (m/V) is called the acidophilus drink.

3. What's the recommendation for liquid milk drinks application?
Boton produces two models of specific milk white agent specially designed emulsified turbid agent for the liquid milk drinks.
In the liquid milk production, milk white agent should be properly used according to dilution drinks' turbidity and taste. We recommend the 0.06-0.10% usage and occasional 0.10-0.15% usage won't influence the liquid milk's original flavor and taste. Boton's milk white agent special for liquid milk should be added into the drink at the ingredient procedure of semi-finished goods and before the addition of pigment and flavors (surely not to mix with flavors containing alcohol for your notice).After that, it's best to isotropic, HTST or the UHT to get sterilization result.

4. How to classify the sweets usually?
The color and pattern of confectionery varieties much, it's also difficult to unify the classified methods. At present, there are three methods usually in China :
  1. according to the sweets soft and hard degree:
    Hard sugar: Water capacity is below 2%;
    Half soft sugar: Water capacity is between 5% ~ 10%;
    Soft sugar: Water capacity is above 10%;
  2. according to the sweets composition:
    Hard sugar, toffee, egg-white sugar, milk sugar, soft sugar and filling sugar,ect.
  3. according to the processing craft characteristics:
    Boiled sweets(hard sugar for short), burnt fragrant sweets, gasification sweets, gelatin sweets, chocolate products, other categories, etc..

5. How to choose flavors in confectionery production?
The flavor is one of important raw materials for confectionery production. The expensive ones are not necessarily good. General principle of selection is that the flavors should be lifelike, gentle with strong top note and scents lasting. It's suitable to select the oil-soluble flavors with high thermostble in confectionery production.

6. Attention points in usage of confectionery flavors?
Flavors and fragrances are all made up by volatile substance. They can disseminate to the air under normal temperature and speed up when temperature increases, therefore the flavor enhancers temperature should be below 100 ℃ and not to surpass 120℃ at highest in the confectionery production. Otherwise it can make a big loss of scents in the products.

7. How to control the quality of hard sugars products?
Hard sugar is the basic of sweets production. The biggest quality problem in production is hard sugar's returning and melting. Returning is actually the granulated sugar coming into re-crystallization in hard sugar. Reduction sugar is the anti- crystallization substance and has a stronger hygroscopicity, so the body would absorb water with much reduction sugar. Therefore the core technology of hard sugar production is to control the reduction sugar and moisture content in confectionery.

8. How to control reduction sugar's content in hard sugar?

Hard sugar's main raw materials are granulated sugar and amylose. Sugar body's reduction sugar comes from amylose mostly because granulated sugar has no reducibility. When designing sweets' prescription, it can be figured out the total quantity of reduction sugar as long as to get the reduction sugar's quantity in amylase. It’s worth pointing out that there is still small partial reduction sugar coming from the processing and formed from hard sugar heated and acid dissolution. It's difficult to control expertly because of the exiting invariable factors. Generally the reduction sugar content of non-acid hard sugar should be controlled in 16 ~ 22% and acid hard sugar would be better in 18~ 28%.


9. How to control the moisture capacity of hard sugar?

The moisture capacity of candies directly affects the products taste and guarantee period. It is a very important index in the production. Sugar fluid boiling temperature and sugar fluid density present certain curves, therefore in production the moisture capacity in liquor is often controlled by boiling sugar. For example, the residual moisture is 3% when temperature achieved 150 ℃ by boiling sugar with usual pressure, 2% when temperature achieved 160 ℃。But the residual moisture of vacuum boiling sugar fluid is related with temperature as well as vacuity. The higher vacuity, the lower vaporization temperature.


10. Is it possible to make the icecream heated directly when it’s being integrated?

Some factories adopt the heating method by passing steam pipe directly through the pulp in order to save the energy consumption and quickly complete pulp’s integration and sterilization. Actually, it is not effective.There are two reasons: First, the partial hyperpyrexia causes the protein denaturation which makes frozen process unstable and gets unqualified products; Second, the “labor steam” without being handled contains harmful matters, such as water treatment preparation and pipeline impurity, etc..
Certainly, it’s another matter regarding the directly heating system of antiseptic breast production and similarity that specially designed, but the operation cost of the overall system will be extremely expensive.


11. Why does the icecream produce a sticking feeling in the mouth?
The following reasons may lead to the sticking feeling of icecream in the mouth:
  • Too much stabilizer (hydrophilic colloid).
  • Low expansion rate.
  • Too much solid.

But as to the R&D, the above flaws perhaps are new ideas to develop special products.


12. What roles do the flavors play in instant noodle seasonings?
  1. To make up the flavor loss in processing of instant noodle sauce package.
    The commercial identity of instant noodle requests a longer display period of over 6 months in general. To achieve the commercial aseptic requirement, manufacturers should control the moisture content of sauce package at about 5% and should control the water activeness at no more than 75. Under such a condition, it's inevitable that the flavor substances in the raw materials will be lost at a greater degree. Suitably adding the flavors enables the flavor substances valid supplemented, thus enables products comprehensively recovered and unfolded with the flavor characteristics of color, fragrance, taste, etc., such as the green onion oil application in flour with onion flavors.
  2. To strengthen products' characteristic flavors and show products diversity.
    With the consumption conscious promoting constantly, the instant noodle market has developed from the acceptive consumption pattern to the selective consumption pattern and is gradually driving to the initiative consumption pattern. This requires the new products designing must be provided with a prominent characteristic flavor to conform to consumers' intention. The new flavor enhancers may effectively achieve this characteristic of instant noodle. For example, the pickled mustard cabbage and beef instant noodles with a flavor of Sichuan domestic cuisine requires to be provided with a rich acid flavor fermented by natural acidophilus and by taking the rich flavors of cooked beef as the flavor note to reveal the product characteristics. The pickled mustard cabbage flavors will reappear its acid flavor successfully in the instant noodles seasoning.
  3. To help to control the cost.
    As raw materials being replaced by flavors gradually, the production craft can be simplified with same flavors so as to achieve cost control and enable products more competitive in market, such as the adoption of meat cream toreplace part or all of frozen meat.
  4. A valid tool of new products development.
    New flavors are developed quickly. With new flavors, the R&D of instant noodles production will be provided with further orientation. Such as the development of the new flavors with Chinese medicines will make Chinese medicines noodle possible.