Nature's Mix

自然的混合

• 批准号: 543383-2019
• 负责人: Fennessy, Barbara
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Conestoga College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=680940
• 关键词: Nature; Mix

Nature's Mix, located in Cambridge Ontario, is a producer of healthy granola mixes. The company currently produces 17 different granola mixes to supply to the health food market in Ontario. Nature's Mix is interested in expanding and automating their production line to increase product supply to meet growing customer demand.The unique combination of ingredients in the granola mix requires optimization of cooking parameters including temperature and time, mixing method, and air flow in the headspace. Therefore, choosing a suitable cooking technology for this kind of a mixture is challenging. To achieve optimum quality of the cooked granola mix, the cooking equipment should be capable of controlling temperature, continuously mixing the material at a given speed, and removing the moist air from the system. The existing technology does not meet all these requirements. Thus, the research project holds two objectives: 1) development of a prototype for cooking granola mix and that meets company specifications, and 2) evaluation of the effects of this new technology on product quality.The research team at Conestoga College's Institute for Food Processing Technology (IFPT) will conduct experiments to prototype an equipment with novel technology that the company can utilize in cooking granola at an elevated scale, but without altering the product quality. Nature's Mix will benefit through increased sales growth in the healthy food product market, scaled up production, and creation of new employment opportunities.

位于安大略省剑桥市的Natural‘s Mix是一家生产健康格兰诺拉麦片的公司。该公司目前生产17种不同的燕麦混合物，供应安大略省的健康食品市场。Natural‘s Mix有意扩大其生产线并使其自动化，以增加产品供应，以满足日益增长的客户需求。格兰诺拉麦片混合物中独特的配料组合要求优化烹饪参数，包括温度和时间、搅拌方法和顶部空间的空气流动。因此，为这种混合物选择合适的烹饪技术是具有挑战性的。为了使煮熟的格兰诺拉麦片的质量达到最佳，烹饪设备应该能够控制温度，以给定的速度连续搅拌材料，并从系统中去除潮湿的空气。现有的技术不能满足所有这些要求。因此，该研究项目有两个目标：1)开发符合公司规范的烹饪麦片混合物的原型，2)评估这项新技术对产品质量的影响。科内斯托加学院食品加工技术研究所(IFPT)的研究小组将进行实验，以制作一种具有新技术的设备原型，该公司可以在不改变产品质量的情况下，大规模地利用该设备来烹饪麦片。大自然的组合将通过增加健康食品市场的销售增长、扩大生产和创造新的就业机会而受益。