RU2260339C2 - Method for production of dry composition for infant nutrition - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: food processing industry, in particular production of foodstuff for infant nutrition.

SUBSTANCE: cereal is cooked in pectin extract, mixed with fruit-and-vegetable puree and preparation, obtained from biomass of Mortierella humilis micromycete according to claimed technology, homogenized and dried.

EFFECT: target product of improved quality.

Description

The invention relates to a technology for the production of baby food.

A known method of producing a dry mixture for baby food, providing for boiling cereals in water, mixing it with fruit and vegetable puree, homogenization and drying (RU 2013066 C1, 05/30/1994).

The disadvantage of this method is to obtain the target product, prone to clumping.

The technical result of the invention is to improve the quality of the target product.

This result is achieved by the fact that in the method for producing a dry mixture for baby food, comprising boiling cereals, mixing it with fruit and vegetable puree, homogenization and drying, according to the invention, the boiling of cereals is carried out in a pectin extract with a pectin content of 0.5-1.5%, and when mixing, the preparation obtained by sequential extraction of the biomass of micromycete Mortierella humilis with a non-polar supercritical extractant, water, acid, water, alkali, water, acid, and water, followed by combining the first extract with a solid residue, in an amount of 0.01-0.02% by weight of the mixture being prepared.

The method is implemented as follows.

Raw fruits and vegetables are prepared according to the traditional technology adopted for it and wiped with mashed potatoes. It is allowed to use mashed semi-finished product preserved by aseptic method. The groats are sieved, passed through a magnetic trap and washed. Pectin extract with a pectin content of 0.5-1.5% is an intermediate product of pectin production. It is taken from the pectin production line after the hydrolysis-extraction step and filtered. The dry biomass of micromycete Mortierella humilis is extracted with a non-polar extractant, for example carbon dioxide or hexane, in a supercritical state. At this stage, the first extract is separated, which is used later in the preparation. Next, the biomass is sequentially extracted with water, acid, water, alkali, water, acid and water. The solid residue obtained after completion of all the extraction steps listed above is combined with the first extract.

The prepared cereal is mixed with pectin extract in a ratio of 1:10, which is traditionally used for cooking cereals in the production of baby food, and is boiled to a dry matter content of about 11.5% in cereal, as in traditional technologies for the production of baby food. Into boiled cereal, fruit and vegetable puree is introduced in an amount from 30 to 50%, recommended for the corresponding type of puree used in similar mixtures for baby food, and a preparation from biomass of micromycete Mortierella humilis in an amount of 0.01-0.02% of the mass of the prepared mixture, mix, homogenize and dry. In the drying method other than spray, the dried mixture is crushed to a powder state and then sieved. The residual moisture in the target product should not exceed 5%.

Due to the increased pectin content in the target product by about 2 times compared with the closest analogue, the target product obtained by the proposed method has therapeutic and prophylactic properties characteristic of products with a high pectin content, of which a hypoallergenic effect is especially important for products baby food. This, combined with the content in the target product of arachidonic acid, which is absent in the product obtained by the closest analogue, allows reducing the age limit and recommending the product obtained by the proposed method for feeding children from 3.5 months of age.

It has been experimentally established that the target product obtained by the proposed method is easily restored by water to a homogeneous puree consistency, does not form agglomerates and does not crumple when stored in an unpressurized package for a week at an air humidity of up to 76%. The product obtained by the closest analogue is crumpled upon storage in an unpressurized package after 1-2 days.

Thus, the proposed method improves the quality of the target product.

Claims (1)

A method of producing a dry mixture for baby food, comprising boiling cereals, mixing it with fruit and vegetable puree, homogenizing and drying, characterized in that the boiling of cereals is carried out in a pectin extract with a pectin content of 0.5-1.5%, and when mixing is additionally introduced preparation obtained by sequential extraction of the biomass of micromycete Mortierella humilis with a non-polar extractant in a supercritical state, water, acid, water, alkali, water, acid and water, followed by combining the first og extract with a solid residue, in an amount of 0.01-0.02% by weight of the mixture being prepared.