MODERN "MIXING" MACHINES USED IN FOOD INDUSTRY
MODERN "MIXING" MACHINES USED IN FOOD INDUSTRY Mixing or blending is an unit operation in which a uniform mixture is obtained from two or more components, by dispersing one within the other. Like emulsion, the larger components are sometimes called continuous phase and the smaller components are called dispersed phase in mixing also Mixing has no specific preservative effect and is intended solely as a processing aid or to alter the eating quality of foods. It has wide applications in many food industries where it is used to combine ingredients to achieve different functional properties or sensory characteristics for example to obtain sensory characteristics in doughs and control of sugar crystallization in ice creams etc. In some foods adequate mixing is necessary to ensure that the proportion of each component complies with the legislative standards.Extruders and some type of size reduction equipments also have a mixing action. OBJECTIVES OF MIXING To in...