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Gentle Drying of Fruit and Vegetable Purees in a BIRS Spray Dryer.

Here is another story looking at product development focussing on premium products which avoid heat treatment in processing.

The BRIS process uses ambient temperature air which has been dried using heating and silica gel to a few percent relative humidity, in a counter current drying tower.

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This [...]

Production of Foods From Marula, Monkey Orange and Embee

This paper looks in some detail at the production of juice, jam, jelly and muffins from Marula, Monkey Orange and Embee.

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The results are good and show a high degree of acceptance for the products made.

However, having just been looking at some of [...]

Wara – Traditional Cheese of Nigeria

Timbuktu Chronicles describes this traditional cheese made from cows milk with a leaf extract from the Sodom Apple (Calotropis procera) tree. The leaf extract performs the coagulating role, normally played by rennet.

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Colourants in Food

This article in Food Navigator

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which covered a range of interesting issues in food colouring including the relation between depth of colour and the perception of sweetness, the real danger of some colourants of 100 years ago, the move to natural colours and the fact [...]

High Pressure Technology

Another juice produced using the pressure pasteurization technology.

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Besides the beautiful colours and look the flavours put the juice in a different class and presumably give the procurement manager grey hair.

How do you ensure the availability of fresh Raspberry, Passion Fruit, Melon, Mango [...]

The Gizmo Closure – More Than Just A Lid,

This is combination of a lid, a doser and a processor. The Gizmo is seen in action in the large bottle in the scan of the company's website below. The orange colour has been introduced from the lid and is being mixed into the contents of the bottle.

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Nougat – Product Life Cycles and Ansoff Grids?

This is like a case study for the Product Lifecycle and the Ansoff Matrix approaches to market development.

Wedgewood have just come up with Race Food

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Which has a somewhat different feel to its existing product, which has a totally different look.

On the product lifecycle [...]

Nyirefami Milling – Succesfful African Milling Business

Nyirefami Ltd is a really focussed Tanzanian milling company, which appears to succeed because of its focus.

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Products are produced from pearl millet, finger millet, sorghum, plantain, maize and wheat and have a strong focus on nutrition.

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New Food Chain Journal About to Publish Fourth Edition

I have posted previously about the “New” Food Chain, which is the successor to the original food chain magazine which was originally published and widely distributed for free by ITDG, (later Practical Action). The original magazine is replaced by a new International Peer Reviewed Journal as explained here by Practical action.

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Ginger – Simple Online Information

This is a simple page or two of information on ginger, mainly focused on the increasing popularity of ginger containing products.

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