Beverage equipment and thermal processing machinery

Arrow Scientific, Australia, offers custom thermal processing machinery based on product, temperature needs, space availability, lab layout and budget. Arrow works with bottom line process technologies (BLT) to design the best beverage equipment or thermal processing unit from simple to complex, manual to automated, individual components to complete skid-mounted units. BLT specializes in the design and fabrication of small-scale beverage equipment and other bench-top machinery. Fill rates up to 1 l/min are available, with samples as small as 500 ml.

A standard High Temperature Short Time (HTST) pasteurizer provides beverage companies and ingredient suppliers an efficient, simple-to-operate and affordable way to produce beverage samples under controlled conditions. Facilities include:

l  Bottle filler box for safety;
l  Water heater with digital controller;
l  Variable speed product pump;
l  All stainless construction;
l  Water container with auto-refill for start-up and flush; and
l  Digital product temperature display.

Source: www.foodmag.com.au

Patented cold-fill process

XND Technologies, the United States, is offering a complete line of bottled water products that use a patented technology to add organic nutrients to water without adding masking flavours, colours or sweeteners. The proprietary cold-fill process is claimed to give XND several advantages:


l  This process is said to cost 30 per cent less than the standard hot-fill process, which translates directly to greater bottom line profits;
l  Cold-filling enhances the bioavailability of the ingredients, prevents biodegradation and allows beverages to be bottled at neutral pH, thereby creating a more healthful product without altering the taste of the water; and
l  The process allows the company to use the claims “no preservatives”, “natural” and “organic” on its packaging and marketing materials. Consumer testing indicates that public awareness sees Nu2O bottled water products in a category of its own.

Source: www.packagingdigest.com
Coco water beverage bottling
The joint venture project of Touareg Corp., the Philippines, to promote a coco beverage bottling plant is providing livelihood and income to 1,760 coconut farmers. The village-scale system for bottling coconut water as a health drink was designed using locally developed methods and fabricated equipment. The farmers were engaged mainly in copra drying in 1,690 ha of coconut land, resulting in an annual waste of 6,410 t of coconut water. Touareg’s project provides a healthy beverage alternative at prices lower than soft drinks. Unlike thermally processed (high-temperature/short-time pasteurization) coco water products in expensive, non-reusable containers of medium-sized and large-scale industries that use petrol fuels as heating source, the project utilizes the abundant agri-biomass energy and adopts the cold conservation/microfiltration technology that retains the natural taste and aroma of coconut water in 100 per cent reclycable/reusable glass bottles.


Source: www.socialedge.org
Non-nutritive sweetened beverages with coconut milk

The Concentrate Manufacturing Company, Ireland, is offering beverage compositions sweetened with at least one non-nutritive sweetener, such as a compound from the stevia plant, including steviol glycosides (rebaudiosides such as Rebaudioside A, stevioside). Coconut milk is present at levels sufficient to enhance the mouthfeel of the beverage, yet not affect the taste. Non-nutritive sweetened beverage compositions, beverage concentrates, and natural beverage compositions incorporating steviol glycosides and coconut milk have also been provided. In addition, a method for including coconut milk in a beverage formulation to enhance the mouthfeel of a beverage sweetened with a compound from the stevia plant has been provided.

Source: www.freepatentsonline.com
Beverage microbial screening system

Celsis International plc., the global leader in rapid microbial detection solutions for industry, recently launched RapiScreen Beverage, a new assay for use on the Celsis Innovate – the company’s proven rapid microbial screening instrument for dairy products. The rapid screening test kit extends the Celsis Innovate platform to efficiently and rapidly screen ultra heat-treated and extended shelf-life beverage products for microbial contamination. The flexibility and high-throughput of the Celsis Innovate system makes it ideal for companies that produce beverage and dairy products alike. The RapiScreen Beverage kit works on everything – from clear to pulpy juices and from broths to soups – with no filtering necessary. Utilizing proprietary innovations in enzyme technology, RapiScreen Beverage for Innovate delivers reliable and consistent results on a range of products in 24-48 hours.

Source: www.beverageonline.com
Fermenting papaya pulp and juice

Marfarma Holding S.p.A., Italy, has patented a process for the fermentation of papaya pulp and juice by means of Saccharomyces strains, in which the fermenting suspension is added with a selenium soluble compound. The process of the invention provides fermented papaya containing selenium in nutritional amounts. The product obtainable by fermentation, which is a further object of the invention, has increased anti-oxidizing activity and provides suitable amounts of bioavailable selenium – whose deficiency in the body exposes it to risks of degenerative diseases like tumours and pancreatitis – and is useful in general in all those conditions which benefit from preventing formation of free radicals, known etiologic agents in a number of pathologies due to their effect on lipid lipoperoxidation, immune system cells, skin and, in general, on cells exposed to oxidative stress. The seleno-fermented papaya can be used as the active ingredient for nutritional supplements and/or medicaments, which can be employed in all oxidative stress conditions and related degenerative pathologies. Contact: Marfarma Holding S.p.A., Via Balestrieri, No. 6, 20154 Milano, Italy.

Source: www.freepatentsonline.com