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Silica: The Invisible Hero for Food Industry Stability and Efficiency - Enhance Powder Handling and Quality with Zhonglian Silica
2024.12.29
"The Invisible Hero of the Food Industry - Silica"
  1. The dilemma of powder ingredients
In today's fast-paced lifestyle, convenient and fast food is favored by consumers, which makes powder ingredients widely used in food formulations because of their excellent instant solubility. However, there are also many problems in powder mixing. Its particles are often relatively small, easy to bond with each other, poor fluidity, and easy to caking when stored, which brings great difficulties to the operation and accurate feeding in production. This problem is especially significant for materials that are susceptible to moisture, such as fruit powder, vegetable powder, flavors and spices, and chili powder.
Second, the characteristics and advantages of silica
The emergence of the food additive silicon dioxide, like a dawn, successfully solved these problems. As a new green, safe and healthy food additive, silica has a series of remarkable properties. It has excellent physiological inertia, chemical stability, high mobility and high adsorption, and does not accumulate in the human body. With these unique advantages, silicon dioxide quickly emerged in the field of food additives and became a high-profile "new star".
  1. Improve the fluidity of the powder
Take the production of powder raw materials such as chili powder, fruit powder or salt, in modern industrial production, automatic feeding systems are usually used. In this process, the control of the quality of food raw materials and the stability and accuracy of the addition amount are crucial. Once the fluidity of the powder is poor, it will lead to fluctuations in the feeding, which makes the final product quality difficult to reach a satisfactory level. But if Zoomlion silica is used, the situation will be very different. It can significantly improve the fluidity of the product, based on the principle that the silica will act as a flow agent to tightly wrap the surface of the powder raw material, thus effectively separating the particles from each other. In addition, it has a prominent advantage, that is, strong high absorption capacity. This characteristic enables it to absorb water or grease on the surface of the particles, greatly reducing the possibility of bonding between the particles, making the feeding process smoother and more accurate.
Four, help spray drying processing
In the field of food processing, many food raw materials are processed by spray drying, such as vegetable powder, vegetable extract, whey powder, egg powder or plant fat powder. In the actual operation process of spray drying, the inner wall of spray drying often has the problem of caking, which requires frequent cleaning work, which not only consumes manpower and material resources, but also affects the production efficiency and increases the number of downtime. However, if Zhonglian silica and slurry are added separately in the spray tower, the occurrence of caking phenomenon can be effectively reduced, thus greatly shortening the length of downtime. Moreover, what is more convenient is that the silica is directly added to the spray tower, which can also eliminate the cumbersome steps of mixing later, thereby increasing the overall yield. This is undoubtedly the most efficient and practical way to use silica as a flow aid and anti-caking agent.
  1. Ensure product transportation and storage
For raw material producers, they need to transport their products to different parts of the world, and during the transportation and storage process, due to the large differences in climate conditions in different regions, changes in temperature and humidity are difficult to avoid. This change often leads to caking of the product, and when the customer processes these products in the future, it will face many difficulties, and may even affect the final quality of the product. However, by adding Zhonglian silica, the caking problem of powder can be effectively avoided. This makes the product, no matter in any corner of the world, can always maintain stable quality, providing a solid guarantee for the stable development of the food industry.
To sum up, although the proportion of silicon dioxide in food may not be insignificant, it plays an indispensable role in all aspects of food production, transportation and storage, and is called the "invisible hero" in the food industry.
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