Glatt in the collaborative project “ADMIX”

Internationalization of Leading-Edge Clusters, Future Projects and Comparable Networks – Subproject 2 – “ADMIX Advanced processing of mixed-ingredient food particles”.

The food and feed industry is faced with the major challenge of developing products that both promote consumer health and are convenient to use. Convenient in use are products in the form of powders or granules that can be quickly and easily transformed into beverages or soups, for example, by adding water. Promoting health requires that the product’s formulation can be adapted to the specific nutritional needs of consumer groups (e.g., young children or the elderly) and improved as needed, for example, by replacing conventional ingredients with new and more valuable ingredients.

The aim of this project is to break new ground in the production of the described class of high value food and feed products by allowing flexibility in ingredient selection and fractions, while maintaining product quality at a controllable high level and ensuring production efficiency. This is very difficult to achieve with the existing reference process, which consists of spray drying followed by post-treatment in an otherwise inactive fluidized bed and finally dry blending of different powders (Figure 1).