food Marketing - Technology 6/2022

Ingredients
Enriched Gummies: Highly Flexible Apple
Pectin for More Tolerance
A newly developed apple pectin
provides a simple solution in the
production of enriched confectionery
that is suitable for numerous functional
ingredients. An additional buffer is not
required. Only the pH value of the
recipe concerned must be adjusted
using the quantity of edible acid.
To manufacture vegan fruit gummies
with pectin, a sweet mass is cooked,
poured into moulds and then cooled
until it gelatinizes in just a couple of
minutes. The advantages of pectin
compared with other hydrocolloids
include its low boiling viscosity and
fast gelification. This is combined
with easy manufacturability and high
efficiency. If the sweets are to be
enriched with functional ingredients,
they can be added to the hot mass
during the cooking process before
gelification. The choice and options
for these ingredients are seemingly
limitless: minerals, vitamins, fiber,
plant extract, cider vinegar and
much more. The problem: Acids and
minerals in particular can interact
with pectin and thus impact the
gelification.
New pectin with significantly
increased tolerance
Confectionery pectins supplied
by Herbstreith & Fox are already
famous for their high tolerance to
recipe parameters. With their latest
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