WO2011088942A1 - Reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition and preparation thereof - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition wherein the particulate composition can be
- the invention further relates to the preparation of such a protein-containing particulate composition, to an acidic protein-containing beverage prepared from such a reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition and to the preparation of such acidic protein-containing beverages from the protein containing particulate composition.
- Fruit-juices and other acidic juice-like beverages are popular commercial products. This popularity comes with the fresh taste experienced by the consumer when drinking a beverage having a pH of between about 3.0 to 5.5. On top of that, consumer demand for nutritional healthy beverages has led to the development of nutritional juice or juice-like beverages containing protein.
- the protein provides nutrition in addition to the nutrients provided by the components of the beverage. Recently it has been discovered that certain proteins have specific health benefits beyond providing nutrition. For example, soy protein has been recognized by the United States Food and Drug
- a problem associated to rehydration of reconstitutable protein-containing particulate compositions to provide an acidic protein-containing beverage is the relative insolubility of proteins in an aqueous acidic environment at the pH (between about 3.0 and 5.5) desired for the resulting beverage.
- stabilising agents are used to stabilise the proteins as a suspension in an aqueous acidic environment thereby preventing coagulation and/or precipitation of protein aggregates.
- Reconstitutable protein-containing particulate compositions used for the preparation of acidic beverages therefore preferably already contain a protein stabilising agent.
- One of the most commonly used agents for stabilising protein in acidic beverages is pectin, more particularly highly methylated pectin (HM pectin) which is the standard protein stabiliser in a lot of products.
- WO2004/086879 relates to a powder composition wherein the powder composition is reconstituted to form a protein drink with an increased stability, said powder composition comprising from about 3 to about 30 percent pectin (weight/weight of the protein content), the pectin having a degree of
- the invention also relates to a process for the production of said powder composition and use thereof.
- WO2005/063056 discloses a process for making a powdered precursor for preparing an acidic beverage upon admixture of the powdered precursor with a liquid, the process comprising the steps: (a) preparing a first slurry comprising a protein source and a stabiliser, said first slurry having a neutral or an acidic pH;
- the preferred polysaccharide stabiliser in this invention is pectin.
- protein and pectin are used in a ratio protein : pectin of about 33 : 1 to 12 : 1 .
- the protein In acidic beverages containing dairy proteins, the protein generally needs to be subjected to a single heating step during the sterilisation or pasteurisation of the final beverage.
- the more severe heat load experienced by the soy protein makes that acidic soy protein-containing beverages tend to be more sensitive to protein-aggregation and phase separation during sterilisation or pasteurisation than other acidic protein containing beverages.
- the protein is readily dispersed (i.e. does not show large protein-aggregates or phase separation) during reconstitution of the protein-containing particulate
- a reconstitutable protein-containing particulate composition which comprises at least 15 wt% of soy protein and further comprises water soluble soybean polysaccharide as stabiliser, wherein the soy protein has a degree of solubility in water at a pH of 4.5 of less than 40 wt%, and wherein the weight ratio of soy protein to water soluble soybean polysaccharide is between 7:1 and 1 :2.
- the beverage obtained by rehydration in a factory of the reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition according to the present invention shows a stability after a sterilisation or pasteurisation treatment at elevated temperatures, which is superior to the stability of acidic soy protein-containing beverages obtained from rehydratable protein-containing particulate
- compositions that use pectin as a stabiliser Said rehydration in a factory is best achieved by high shear mixing and at elevated temperature, e.g. 40-80°C, but these conditions are not relevant for the stability when subjected to a
- US2007/0092625 (Fuji Oil) relates to a food or a drink containing an acidic protein which has a favorable flavor with relieved astringency characteristic to a protein dissolved under acidic conditions.
- This publication discloses the preparation of a spray dried reconstitutable acidic-soluble soybean protein powder containing water soluble soybean polysaccharide.
- the soybean protein used in this invention specifically concerns the acidic-soluble fractions of a soy protein and relates to solving a problem different from the problem solved by our invention.
- US2007/0092625 provides a food or a drink containing an acidic protein which has a favourable flavour with relieved astringency characteristic to a protein dissolved under acidic conditions to thereby broaden the flavour variety of protein-containing foods or drinks.
- the present invention relates to a reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition containing water soluble soybean polysaccharide as a protein stabiliser.
- the invention further relates to a method for preparing the reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition of the first aspect of the invention.
- the invention relates to method for preparing an acidic soy protein- containing beverage from the reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition of the first aspect of the invention.
- the invention also relates to a microbiologically stable acidic soy protein- containing beverage with improved stability. Detailed description
- Reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate composition is herein to be understood as a particulate composition comprising less than 15 wt% of moisture, which upon hydration with a sufficient amount of an aqueous liquid can yield a soy protein comprising beverage.
- the degree of solubility as herein referred to is determined by dispersing a protein-containing particulate composition in water so that the concentration of the constituent protein becomes 2.5 wt%, followed by thoroughly stirring. After adjusting the pH of the resulting solution if necessary, the solution is centrifuged at 10,000 G for 5 minutes, and the proportion of the supernatant protein to the total protein is determined. This proportion equals the degree of solubility.
- isoelectric point (pi) the term is defined herein as the midpoint of the composite curve of the various isoelectric points of the individual protein components.
- the current invention relates to a reconstitutable protein- containing particulate composition which comprises at least 15 wt% of soy protein and further comprises water soluble soybean polysaccharide as stabiliser, wherein the soy protein has a degree of solubility in water at a pH of 4.5 of less than 40 wt%, and wherein the weight ratio of soy protein to water soluble soybean polysaccharide is between 7:1 and 1 :2.
- soy protein that is obtained from the raw soybean with as few fractionation and/or purification steps as possible.
- the soy protein used in the process of the present invention has a degree of solubility in water at a pH of 4.5 of less than 40 wt%, preferably less than 30 wt%, more preferably less than 20 wt%.
- the amount of soy protein present in the protein-containing particulate composition is at least 15 wt%, preferably at least 20 wt%, more preferably at least 25 wt%.
- the maximum amount of soy protein present in the particulate composition is primarily determined by the amount of other ingredients present in the particulate composition.
- Non limiting examples of such ingredients are water soluble soybean polysaccharides, organic acids, maltodextrin and water.
- the amount of soy protein present in the protein-containing particulate composition is usually less than 80 wt%.
- the highest amount of soy protein in the particulate composition can drop to lower levels like 65 wt%, or even to below 50 wt%.
- SSPS water soluble soybean polysaccharide'
- the term is to be understood herein as a heteropolysaccharide obtainable from crude soy material, comprising a galacturonic acid content of less than 40 mol%, preferably less than 30 mol%, more preferably less than 25 mol% and a neutral sugar (side chains) content of more than 40 mol%, preferably more than 50 mol%, more preferably more than 60 mol%.
- SSPS is a more branched polymer than HM pectin.
- its backbone is believed to consist of homogalacturonan regions interlinked by short regions of rhamnogalacturonan to which side chains of neutral sugars are attached.
- the backbone of HM pectin consist of homogalacturonan, interspersed with some rhamnogalacturonan regions (although few) and the side chains of commercial pectin are typically few and short.
- the main component in both SSPS and commercial HM pectin are galactose, arabinose, rhamnose, fucose, xylose, glucose and galacturonic acid.
- commercial pectin consist mainly of galacturonic acid
- a preferred SSPS consist mainly of arabinose, galactose and galacturonic acid.
- the amount of galactose in the SSPS is higher than 20 mol%, preferably higher than 30 mol%, more preferably higher than 35 mol%.
- the amount of arabinose in the SSPS is preferably higher than 15 mol%, more preferably higher than 20 mol%, most preferably higher than 23 mol%.
- the Mw of the two polymers differs as well. Where SSPS typically has a Mw of several 100kDa, pectin typically has a Mw of around 70-150kDa.
- the preferred amount of water soluble soybean polysaccharide present in the protein-containing particulate composition is related to the total amount of soy protein present in that particulate composition. Due to the high cost of SSPS the amount of SSPS used is preferably as low as possible. However, the amount of water soluble soybean polysaccharide present in the protein-containing particulate composition should be sufficiently high to stabilise the protein in the beverage obtainable from reconstitution of the particulate composition.
- the weight ratio of soy protein to water soluble soybean polysaccharide present in the protein-containing particulate composition is between 7:1 and 1 :2, preferably between 6:1 and 1 :1 , more preferably between 5:1 and 2:1 , most preferably between 5:1 and 3:1 .
- a 10% by weight solution of the protein-containing particulate composition of the current invention in water preferably has a pH of below 7.5.
- the protein-containing particulate composition is used to produce a ready to drink soy protein-containing beverage at a pH of between 3.0 and 5.5, which is subsequently packaged before being sold to the customer.
- a reconstitutable protein-containing particulate composition according to the current invention which shows a pH of below 4.0 or between 6.0 and 7.5 when present in water in an amount of 10 wt%.
- the reconstitutable protein-containing particulate composition has a pH of between 6.5 and 7.0 when present in water in an amount of 10 wt%.
- the reconstitution for the use in this is preferably done by applying shear, and optionally elevated (e.g. 40-80°C) temperatures, to facilitate rehydration. Such shear and elevated temperature do not influence the stability after rehydration in a major way.
- a protein-containing particulate composition showing a pH in these preferred pH ranges will allow the preparation therefrom of an acidic soy protein-containing beverage that shows improved stability (compared to similar beverages stabilised with pectin) after sterilisation or pasteurisation at elevated
- the protein-containing particulate composition may also be sold to consumers still as a particulate composition (i.e. not in a reconstituted format) for use at home. This would allow a customer to prepare a directly consumable nutritional acidic soy protein-containing beverage in a fast and easy way.
- the protein- containing particulate composition may be sold in a package mixed with additional ingredients in powdery form desired to obtain the final acidic soy protein-containing beverage composition after reconstitution with an aqueous liquid of choice.
- additional ingredient can be e.g. sugar (any sugar:
- glucose, sucrose, fructose which can be included for taste reasons, but also to aid rehydration in home use, especially if the sugar, protein and stabiliser are produced by co-spray-drying.
- part or all of the sugar in this may be replaced by e.g. maltodextrin.
- the sugar and maltodextrin do not have a major influence on stability after rehydration like SSPS, but may be used to facilitate rehydration
- the amount of maltodextrin and sugar taken together are typically used in an amount of 50 to 1000%, when taken on soy protein (100% being equal to the level of soy protein).
- the material may preferably be granulated during or after drying.
- Further additional ingredients that may be used comprise acids or bases in powder form, including dried fruit juices, in an amount necessary to obtain a beverage with a certain desired pH or taste.
- the pH of the thus obtained beverage is between 3.0 and 5.5, more preferably between 3.8 and 4.7.
- a 10% by weight solution of the reconstitutable protein-containing particulate composition according to the current invention preferably has a pH of between 3.0 and 5.5, more preferably between 3.8 and 4.7.
- a reconstitutable particulate composition giving such a pH would not require the addition of additional acidic or basic ingredients to obtain a beverage at the desired pH.
- the beverage prepared at home is intended for 'immediate' consumption (e.g.
- the beverage prepared at home from a protein-containing particulate composition showing a pH in the pH ranges preferred for these consumer rehydratable particulate compositions does not show significant protein-aggregation or phase separation and remains stable for much longer than is required for the intended use.
- additional stabiliser may still be used. If additional polysaccharide stabilisers are used these are preferably pectin, carrageenan, alginates, carboxymethyl cellulose, xanthan, gellan gum, gum arabic or combinations thereof.
- Preferred additional polysaccharide stabilisers comprise HM-pectin, sodium
- CMC-Na carboxymethyl cellulose
- PGA propylene glycol alginate ester
- BD-pectin beet- derived pectin
- low molecular weight pectin or combinations thereof is HM-pectin.
- the wt% of water soluble soybean polysaccharide exceeds the total wt% of the additional stabilisers. More preferably the amount (wt%) of water soluble soybean polysaccharide is at least twice the total amount (wt%) of additional stabilisers.
- particulate composition may also contain other additional ingredients.
- additional ingredients comprise carbohydrates, fruit solids, emulsifiers, proteins, flavours, organic acids, fats, vitamins, minerals, high intensity sweeteners or mixtures thereof.
- Suitable carbohydrates include sugars, starches, and maltodextrin.
- Suitable fruits include apple, apricot, banana, grapefruit, grape, guava, lemon, lime, mandarine, mango, orange, peach, pommelo, pumpkin, squash, tangarine, tomato and mixtures thereof.
- Suitable organic acids include lactic acid, malic acid, citric acid and ascorbic acid.
- Suitable additional proteins may include vegetable proteins but also dairy proteins.
- the particulate composition and the beverage obtained therefrom is substantially dairy free.
- Suitable minerals include calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc.
- Suitable high intensity sweeteners include sucralose and aspartame.
- the reconstitutable protein- containing particulate composition comprises maltodextrin in an amount of between 0.1 and 40 wt%, preferably between 10 and 35 wt%, more preferably between 20 and 30 wt%.
- the particulate composition already contains as many of the solid ingredients of the final beverage as possible. This will reduce the number ingredients to be added during the preparation of the final beverage from the particulate composition and will thus simplify this process significantly.
- the increased stability resulting from the use of the SSPS stabilised protein- containing particulate composition according to the current invention allows the addition of more additional ingredients while still resulting in a beverage of acceptable stability than would be allowed by a pectin stabilised protein- containing particulate composition as the current standard.
- the current invention relates to a process for preparing the reconstitutable protein-containing particulate composition according to the first aspect of the present invention. This process comprises the steps of:
- the soy protein source and/or the source of water soluble soybean polysaccharides already contain ingredients as described in the sections additional stabilisers and other additional ingredients prior to the slurry preparation of step (c).
- the source of water soluble soybean polysaccharides is a dry powder it may be dry mixed with other ingredients as referred to in the sections additional stabilisers and other additional ingredients (like e.g. maltodextrin and/or sugar).
- Another option may be to already combine the soy protein source with the source of water soluble soybean polysaccharides before the preparation of the slurry in step (c).
- the source of soy protein is a soy milk the water soluble soybean polysaccharides may be added directly to the soymilk prior to addition of other (optional) ingredients in step (c).
- step (c) it is possible to add any of the desired additional ingredients that are not introduced into the slurry via the soy protein source or via the source of water soluble soybean polysaccharides.
- An example of an ingredient that may be added during step (c) is maltodextrin.
- the process may comprise additional process steps.
- Preferred additional process step are selected from pasteurisation, sterilisation, mixing and combinations thereof.
- the pasteurisation and/or sterilisation process steps are executed at elevated temperatures.
- Preferred mixing operations comprise high shear mixing, homogenisation or combinations thereof.
- the most preferred mixing step is a homogenisation process, preferably a high pressure homogenisation process (e.g. at 150-200 bar).
- These additional process steps may be executed on single ingredient streams, on intermediate process streams (e.g. on a process stream that comprises a mixture of ingredients but not yet all desired ingredient) or on the final slurry composition.
- the slurry is dried by a drying process comprises freeze- drying, fluid bed drying, spray-drying, drum-drying, drying by supercritical CO2 or combinations thereof.
- the drying process comprises a spray- drying step.
- homogenisation may occur simultaneously with the drying step by spraying the composition through the nozzle of a spray drier.
- the slurry to be spray dried preferably has a pH of below 4.0 or between 6.0 and 7.5. More preferably the slurry in this case has a pH of between 6.5 and 7.0.
- the slurry to be spray dried preferably has a pH of between 3.0 and 5.5, more preferably between 3.8 and 4.7.
- the soy protein source may be provided in any suitable form, for example in the form of soymilk, soymilk extract, fermented soymilk, soy protein isolate, soy protein concentrate, whole bean powder, soy flour or mixtures thereof.
- Such protein sources are commercially available.
- Preferred sources of soy protein are soymilk, soy protein isolate or mixtures thereof.
- the most preferred source of soy protein is soymilk or whole bean powder.
- the current invention relates to a process for the preparation of an acidic soy protein-containing beverage.
- This process comprises the step of:
- any other ingredients necessary to obtain the desired beverage composition may be added during the preparation. This may be done prior to, during and/or after rehydration step (a).
- a preferred additional process step comprises pasteurisation, sterilisation, mixing, packaging or combinations thereof.
- the pasteurisation and/or sterilisation process steps are executed at elevated temperatures.
- the preferred mixing step comprises a shear-inducing step, e.g. a homogenisation process, preferably a high pressure homogenisation process (e.g. at 150-200 bar).
- These additional process steps may be executed on single ingredient streams, on intermediate process streams (e.g. on a process stream that comprises a mixture of ingredients but not yet all desired ingredient) or on the final composition.
- Suitable aqueous liquids that can be used to rehydrate the protein-containing particulate composition comprise water, milk, fruit juice or mixtures thereof. Since soy protein-containing products are often chosen as a substitute for products containing animal proteins it may be preferred that the aqueous liquid is substantially dairy free.
- Suitable fruit juices may be used in diluted, undiluted or concentrated form and may comprise apple juice, apricot juice, banana juice, grapefruit juice, grape juice, guava juice, lemon juice, lime juice, mandarine juice, mango juice, orange juice, peach juice, pommelo juice, pumpkin juice, squash juice, tangarine juice, tomato juice or mixtures thereof.
- the pH of the liquid obtained after rehydration of the reconstitutable protein- containing particulate composition may not be at the level desired for the final beverage and may subsequently require further adjustment.
- the beverage prepared by the process according to the third aspect of the current invention has a pH of between 3.0 and 5.5. More preferably the pH of the prepared beverage is between 3.8 and 4.7.
- the pH of the beverage obtained after rehydration of the reconstitutable protein-containing particulate composition needs to be adjusted to fall within the preferred range, this can be done by addition of a suitable amount of edible acids, edible bases, fruits (including juices, extracts, concentrates) or
- Suitable edible acids comprise lactic acid, malic acid, citric acid and ascorbic acid or mixtures thereof.
- Suitable edible bases comprise sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide or a mixture thereof.
- Suitable fruits comprise apples, apricots, bananas, grapefruits, grapes, guavas, lemons, limes, mandarines, mangos, oranges, peaches, pommelo's, pumpkins, squashes, tangarines, tomato's or mixtures thereof.
- the reconstitutable particulate composition according to the first aspect of the invention allows the preparation (by reconstitution of the granulate composition) of an acidic soy protein-containing beverage that even remains stable after sterilisation at high temperatures is applied after the reconstitution.
- the protein-containing particulate composition is preferably prepared from drying a slurry according to the second aspect of the invention having a pH of below 4.0 or between 6.0 and 7.5, more preferably between 6.5 and 7.0.
- the process for preparing the acidic soy protein-containing beverage comprises a sterilising step wherein the beverage is sterilised by heating to a temperature in excess of 90°C, preferably to a temperature in excess of 100°C, most preferably to a temperature in excess of 120°C.
- This possibility to sterilise the obtained acidic soy beverage at such high temperatures may for the first time allow the beverage to be packaged by a so- called hot filling process.
- Such a process has the advantage that the containers used to bottle these beverages do not have to be sterilised separately, followed by bottling under aseptic conditions.
- hot fill packaging the term is defined herein as a process used in industry wherein containers (e.g. bottles) are filled with a product hot enough to sterilise the container and ensure continued sterility of the product during and after the filling process.
- the containers are sterilised by the temperature of the product filling the container and thus the need for operating the production line under aseptic conditions no longer exists.
- the temperature of the beverage when entering the bottle should be at least 85 °C but higher temperatures are preferred.
- the process according to the present invention may thus also comprise a 'hot fill' packaging step during which the temperature of the beverage is at least 85 °C when entering the package.
- the temperature of the beverage is at least 90°C, more preferably at least 95°C, when entering the package.
- Sterilised hot filled samples may thereafter be left to cool and may be stored under ambient conditions for at least 6 months.
- Pasteurised products may need to be stored chilled (e.g. at 5°C) and may be stored for over 15 weeks.
- the reconstitutable particulate composition according to the first aspect of the invention may also allow a consumer to prepare, in a fast and easy way, a stable directly consumable nutritional acidic soy protein-containing beverage wherein the protein is readily dispersed (i.e. does not show large protein- aggregates).
- the protein-containing particulate composition is preferably prepared from drying a slurry according to the second aspect of the invention having a pH of between 3.0 and 5.5, more preferably of between 3.8 and 4.7. Beverages thus prepared do not need to remain stable as long as the above discussed bottled beverages since they are intended for direct consumption. For these beverages a stability of several hours after preparation suffices.
- the current invention relates to an acidic, soy protein-containing beverage obtainable by use of any of the previous aspects of the invention as described above.
- the acidic, soy protein-containing beverage according to this present invention has a pH of between 3.0 and 5.5, preferably between 3.8 and 4.7.
- the acidic soy protein-containing beverage comprises 0.2 to 5 wt% of soy protein. Within these ranges an unacceptable amount of segregation of the proteins can be avoided while still providing a sufficient level of soy protein for its nutritional value.
- at least 0.1 wt% of water soluble soybean polysaccharide is used as a stabiliser.
- the soy protein has a degree of solubility at a pH of 4.5 of less than 40 wt%.
- the amount of SSPS used is preferably as low as possible.
- the amount of water soluble soybean polysaccharide present in the acidic soy protein- containing beverage should be sufficiently high to stabilise the protein present in the beverage.
- the weight ratio of the soy protein to water soluble soybean polysaccharide is therefore between 7:1 and 1 :2, preferably between 6:1 and 1 :1 , more preferably between 5:1 and 2:1 .
- beverage may contain any of the additional ingredients referred to in any of the previous sections of this description.
- a non-limiting example of a suitable composition comprises the following ingredients: water, soy protein, water soluble soybean polysaccharide, maltodextrin, sucrose, fruit juice, organic acid, calcium and an artificial sweetener.
- the amount of water present in the beverage is between 60 and 99 wt%, more preferably between 80 and 98 wt%.
- the beverage is a sterilised and packaged.
- the packaged beverage obtained by any of the above described processes according to the present invention has a shelf life of at least 20 weeks, preferably at least 6 months, more preferably at least 9 months, most preferably at least one year when stored at room temperature (20-25°C) in unopened condition.
- shelf life this term is defined as the length of time that the beverage remains suitable for sale or consumption.
- One aspect that is important for a long shelf life is the prevention of microbiological activity in. This microbiological activity is prevented/reduced by the heat treatment (e.g. sterilisation) of the beverage (and package).
- a beverage according to the current invention is considered
- soy protein level of 0.6 wt% such beverage shows a level of sedimentation of protein-aggregates of less than 30 ml/I, preferably less than 25 ml/I, more preferably less than 20 ml/I, most preferably less than 15 ml/l after storage at 20°C for 20 weeks.
- the size of the particles in the beverage may be giving an indication of the stability of the beverage. These particle sizes may be expressed as D3.2 or D 4 3 diameter and can be measured using static light scattering (Malvern
- the beverage shows an particle size (D3.2) of less than 2.0 preferably less than 1 .0 micrometer.
- Citric acid - Citric acid anhydrate (ex Merck)
- Nozzle - Co-current 2 fluid (Model 970 S4, 0.5 mm, Schlick Atomizing Technologies)
- the particle sizes were measured using static light scattering (Malvern).
- the water soluble soybean polysaccharide (CA100 ex Fuji Oil) as used in these experiments comprised the following components with a rough indication of the amounts in brackets: fucose (about 3 mol%), arabinose (about 25 mol%), rhamnose (about 5 mol%), galactose (about 39 mol%), glucose (about 3 mol%), xylose (about 6 mol%), galacturonic acid (about 18 mol%) and glucuronic acid (about 1 mol%).
- the dry ingredients (Stabiliser (either SSPS or pectin), maltodextrin and optionally citric acid) were dry mixed in a beaker in the amount as given in table 1 . This mixture was added to 982.33 g of water of 80 °C under high shear (8000 rpm) with a Silverson mixer for 20 minutes. During this time the obtained slurry cooled down to below 40 °C.
- Ratio of protein 4.8 4.8 3.3 3.3 to stabiliser Preparation of beverages from protein-containing particulate
- Pasteurised and sterilised end products were prepared from the particulate compositions obtained as described above.
- the quality of the particulate compositions was assessed by determining the level of sedimentation in the end product over time.
- compositions is shown in Table 4: Table 4. Particle size (D 3 2 in micron) in slurry containing the reconstituted particulate composition
- a sugar syrup solution was prepared by dissolving 2580.715 g of sugar dissolved in 41 15.825 g of water of about 60 °C under mild stirring until all sugar was dissolved. 3.
- Fruit juice and mineral slurry was prepared by dissolving 2580.715 g of sugar dissolved in 41 15.825 g of water of about 60 °C under mild stirring until all sugar was dissolved. 3.
- Fruit juice and mineral slurry was prepared by dissolving 2580.715 g of sugar dissolved in 41 15.825 g of water of about 60 °C under mild stirring until all sugar was dissolved. 3.
- the Maltodextrin used in this slurry was Maltodextrin having a degree of esterification (DE) of between 17-20 (ex Syral SA). End products
- the final products were prepared by combining the three separately prepared compositions, the temperature of the two slurries and the syrup were at this point between 10-20 °C. 6696.54 g of the sugar syrup was added to 6107.65 g of the dispersed soy-polysaccharide slurry (under gentle stirring). Subsequently 3936.23 g of the fruit juice mineral slurry was added under gentle stirring followed by the addition of 25009.32 g of water.
- the final slurry was divided into two batches.
- a first batch was sterilised (125 °C for 17 seconds ) followed by packaging under hot conditions ( Temperature > 93 °C).
- the second batch was pasteurised (Temperature between 73 to 80 °C for 17 seconds) followed by packaging under mild conditions (Temperature between 70 and 73 °C).
- Each package contained 300 ml of end product.
- the end products were homogenised after sterilisation or pasteurisation but prior to packaging by using a homogeniser operated at between 150 and 180 bar.
- soy protein and stabiliser content of the resulting beverages prepared from the reconstitutable soy protein-containing particulate compositions as shown in table 3 are presented in table 6.
- the beverages obtained by the processed described above were stored u ambient conditions (Temperatures of around 20 °C).
- the sedimentation is determined by measuring the height of the sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Every mm of sedimentation is equal to 1 .3 ml of sediment in 300ml of end product (i.e. every mm of sedimentation measured is equal to about 4.3 ml of sediment per litre of end product).
- Example 1 2 0.5 3 0.2
- These SSPS stabilised beverages only showed about half the amount of sedimentation and contain much smaller particles than shown by the beverages stabilised by HM pectin even though the pectin stabilised beverages comprised more stabiliser than the SSPS stabilised beverages. This phenomenon occurred for both the sterilised/hot-filled products as well as the pasteurised/mild-filled products.
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