With a perception from consumers that legume-based snacks are a healthier alternative to other snacks due to a higher nutrient content, snack food manufacturers are looking at the use of legumes as a base ingredient for creative and flavorful snack products. Namkeen, the home of legume snacks When it comes ...
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Nils Beyer, Food Application Technologist at GEA Food Solutions discusses the growing trend towards plant- based eating habits and how the food processing sector can take advantage of technology to meet the demand for a wider variety of products.Meat replacement products are growing in popularity with consumers, whether for ethical, ...
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Yashashree Bhagat*, Meemansha Sharma**, Ayon Tarafdar*** Spray-drying is converting slurry or liquid feed into dried particulate form by atomizing the feed into a drying chamber where moisture is evaporated through hot air. The history of spray drying is traceable to a US patent issued in 1872 in the name of ...
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Mr. Dinesh Gupta* The consumer pattern of buying and consuming food has evolved quite a bit. The fast-food market has also proliferated in a very short time due to the fast-paced lifestyle, where consumers primarily consider the convenience and easy access to nutritious and appetizing food. The demand for snack ...
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*P. R. Davara & V. P. Sangani Poor post harvest practices including inadequate storage and preservation facilities, as well as adverse climatic conditions, cause heavy losses in India's agricultural and marine produce. With progressive increase in the quantity of food grains and necessity for longer storage periods, these losses will ...
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The global food industry  is  facing  the enormous  challenge  of  feeding  a population of 10 billion people, a number we are expected to reach by 2050. Our food supply chains are very complex, comprising multiple steps, from the farm to storage, transport, processing, retail and ending eventually on the consumer’s ...
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AI (Artificial Intelligence) makes quality inspections via image processing not only better, but also easier, faster and more efficient to implement. Data Spree from Berlin shows us how. In the food industry in particular, efficiency along the entire value chain is an essential competitive factor. Reliable automation of manufacturing and ...
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* Anurag Mishra The biggest reason for buying packaged food by any consumer is ‘to have safe experience ‘ and if there happens to be anything which is not expected in the pack , there will be increase in the risk of consumer dissatisfaction,  regulatory risk and at the end ...
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*By Hamna Vahab, Ipseeta Nanda, lalrohlui, Anand TS and S. Talukder Introduction The part of the food animal body that remains after commercial dressing procedures is popularly called  carcass. Evaluation and constant maintenance of carcass quality is the measure of output which paves the way for upbringing trade in meat ...
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Q&A with Blake Svejkovsky, General Manager, Product Handling Systems  Conveyors have transformed food manufacturing and have become instrumental in the design of efficient production lines. Until the 1990s, vibratory/shaker conveyors were the industry standard for potato product manufacturing. These rugged but loud conveyors had countless applications, but though found in ...
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