Building Research Capacity at Canada's Smartest Kitchen in Fortified Beverages and Emulsions with a Two-Phased Homogenization Unit

最近的历史表明，北美和欧洲的消费者越来越意识到健康饮食的好处。在过去的几年里，对健康、方便的食品和饮料的需求稳步上升，产品推出的数量每年翻了一番。功能性乳制品、蔬菜和水果、运动饮料和能量饮料都出现了令人印象深刻的增长，没有放缓的迹象。功能性饮料的可能性是无限的，从益生元强化，到副产品和功能性成分的使用，以及纳米乳液等新技术的使用。加拿大公司意识到这些趋势，并热衷于在功能性饮料研究方面进行合作。加拿大最聪明的厨房（CSK），食品研究和开发中心（和NSERC技术访问中心），与爱德华王子岛荷兰学院的加拿大烹饪学院合作，越来越多地与中小企业合作开发创新的增值饮料。在其开发的1,400种食品和饮料产品中，有40种是强化饮料和乳化酱汁。到目前为止，CSK仅限于这些饮料和酱汁的概念验证，因为缺乏均匀化能力，均匀混合两种不溶性液体的过程。为了更好地服务于行业和培训学生，CSK正在寻求PandaPLUS 2000实验室规模的两相均质器。该设备将使CSK超越概念验证，进入全面的产品开发。选择PandaPLUS 2000是因为其可直接扩展到中试和工业规模的加工，从而实现了从工作台到设备的无缝产品开发。CSK已经确定了一个显着的差距，在培训和行业获得这种实验室规模的能力，并希望填补这一空白。

Recent history has demonstrated that consumers in North America and Europe have become increasing awareof the benefits of healthy eating. The demand for healthy, convenient foods and beverages has steadily risenover the past several years, doubling the number of product launches, year over year. Functional dairy,vegetable and fruit, sports drinks and energy drinks have all seen impressive growth with no sign of slowdown. The possibilities of functional beverages are endless, ranging from fortification with prebiotics, to theuse of by-products and functional ingredients, and use of novel technologies like nanoemulsions. AtlanticCanadian companies are aware of these trends and are keen to collaborate in functional beverage research.Canada's Smartest Kitchen (CSK), the food product research and development center (and NSERC TechnologyAccess Center), co-located with The Culinary Institute of Canada at Holland College in Prince Edward Islandhas been working increasingly with SMEs to develop innovative, value added beverages. Of the 1,400 food andbeverage products developed in its existence, 40 have been fortified beverages and emulsified sauces. To date,CSK has been restricted only to concept validation of these beverages and sauces based on lack of capacity inhomogenization, the process of mixing two non-soluble liquids uniformly.To better serve industry and train students, CSK is requesting a PandaPLUS 2000 bench scale two-phasehomogenizer. This equipment will allow CSK to move beyond concept validation and into full productdevelopment. The PandaPLUS 2000 has been selected based on direct scalability to pilot and industrial sizedprocessing, allowing for seamless bench-to-facility product development. CSK has identified a significant gapin training and industry access to this bench scale capability and is hoping to fill this void.