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Growth in Natural Colourants – Single Screenshot Series

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From FoodxStuffSA

 

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 the attempts to commercialize this type of food in South Africa, it is the commercialisation which is the difficult step. Giving recipes and training to communities is unlikely to create jobs unless a focused entrepreneur gets hold of it.

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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I liked this shot from the Kalahari Oasis.

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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 that colours often need to compensate for the effect of processing on a foods colour also linked to am15 page article in Critical Reviews with a more comprehensive view and a focus on history and regulation.

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So take some time to get up to date on food coloring with this free online information.

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 and orange throughout the year?

You can't say this is the closest thing to hand squeezed juice and then use concentrates.

 

Ozone Technology – link to factsheet

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IDENTIFYING SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS

Seeing Ilala Cream on the shelf for the last 10 years and finding this webpage in a major multinational's online product portfolio of 32 products, would make one think it's is a success.

But it tuns out, it has never succeeded,mainly because of the the success of Amarula Cream, Amarula is another cream liqueur, based on an indigenous plant used in traditional South African fermented beverages.

So simple analogies and reasoning doesn't work in food and beverages.

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