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Baby Food Powder
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Principles in Baby Food
Manufacturing
Types of Baby Food
• Humanized
0 - 6 months
• Follow-up
6 - 12 months
• Baby food for 12 - 36 months
• Cereals - porridge spoonable
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Composition 1
Humanized
Fat
28% 26 - 29%
Protein
12% 11 - 13%
Lactose
55% 54 - 58%
Minerals
3%
2 - 3%
Moisture
2%
2%
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Composition 2
Follow-Up
Fat
20%
Protein
18%
Carbohydrate
Minerals
4
Moisture
2
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Principles in Baby Food
Manufacturing
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Example of Manufacturing of Humanized Baby Food
• Milk
• Other ingredients (see below)
• Mixing (total solids 40-42%)
• Pasteurising
• Concentrating by evaporation
• Concentration 55-58% TS
• Drying
• Agglomeration
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Humanized
Other ingredients:
• Whey protein concentrate (WPC)
• Vegetable oil
• Lactose
• Demineralised whey powder
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Example of Manufacturing Follow-Up Baby Food
• Milk
• Other ingredients (see below)
• Mixing (total solids 40 - 42%)
• Pasteurising
• Evaporation to 50-54% TS
• Drying
• Agglomeration
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Other ingredients:
• Whey protein concentrate
• Vegetable oil
• Lactose
• Sucrose
• Malto-dextrin
• Demineralised whey powder
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Advanced solutions for
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The products of the future
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• Products with partly or wholly hydrolysed proteins.
• Products based on soy proteins.
• Products with special fatty acid sequences.
• Products with lactulose.
• Products with immunefactors and protective systems (e.g. with
lysozyme, lactoferrin, transferrin, the lactoperoxidase system and
immunoglobulins).
• Products with probiotic cultures (e.g. bifidobacterium).
• Products with special amino-acid profiles.
• Products free of lactose, and products totally free of milk and
components of milk origin.
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Advantages of our mixing and
pre-treatment systems
• Full range of mixing and blending technologies
• Deaeration systems
• Efficient homogenization
• Full range of sanitary fluid handling equipment
• Aseptic designs available
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APV Systems mixing &
pre-treatment system
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Full process integration with APV
Systems’s products
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Sterile processing system (CIP/SIP)
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APV Systems heat treatment
systems
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• Plate heat exchangers with the patented duo-safety
plates providing high safety.
• Full range of tubular heat exchangers, also for viscous
products.
• Simple and cost effective direct steam injection systems.
• Direct steam infusion systems for superior product
quality, available for low solids and high solids
concentrates.
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Heat treatment systems
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Innovative heat treatment systems for optimal integration
into your process:
• Superior product quality and taste.
• Long production runs and low fouling rates.
• Flexible and cost effective solutions.
• Decades of experience in aseptic processing.
• R & D facilities available for our customers.
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Infusion UHT system for infant
formula
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Feed system for a spray dryer with
integrated UHT system
Infusion
chamber
Condenser
Product
Cooling
water
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Steam
Vacuum
chamber
Culinary
Atomizer
steam
system
Cooling
water
Microfiltration
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• Removes both live and dead bacterial cells and
associated potential hazards
• Provides improved food safety
• Reduces the need for succeeding heat treatment
• Improves the finished product quality
• Sets new standards for baby food products
The patented APV Systems micro-filtration process creates
new opportunities for improved baby food processing
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Live and dead bacteria
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• Live and dead bacteria present a potential health hazard
to infants and small children
Bacillus Cereus
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Clostridium
Salmonella
APV Systems’s microfiltration
process
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Evaporation technology
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• The full range of heat treatment systems can be
integrated
• Unique liquid distribution system
• Long production runs with low fouling rates
• Full range of sanitary tubular and plate evaporators
available
Our evaporators with (optionally) integrated UHT technology
provide improved product quality whilst reducing production
costs.
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Tubular Falling Film Evaporator
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Development within evaporation
technology
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Key areas of development within evaporation technology
• Improved product quality with more specific properties
• Integration of our UHT technologies, aseptic designs and
aseptic processing experience
• Flexible plants for production of a wide range of products
• Long non-stop running hours with minimum fouling and
growth of thermophile bacteria
• Fast and efficient CIP
• Integration of evaporation and membrane filtration
processes
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Spray dryers provide optimal powder
quality
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• Three stage conical spray dryers for flexible production of
both non-agglomerated and agglomerated products with
excellent instant properties.
• Spray bed dryers for dustless agglomerated powders with
narrow particle size distribution.
• Unique high pressure air broom system for long production
runs on difficult speciality products.
• Patented two stage agglomeration process for optimised
product quality.
• Rewet agglomerator for upgrading of existing plants to
produce agglomerated products.
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