If you’re in the food processing business, you’d know how much important it is to make sure that your products are always top-quality and your business doesn’t have any lapses in quality control during the processes.
A indústria alimentar tem registado um enorme crescimento ao longo dos anos. As receitas totais da indústria de snacks são de um valor global de US$449.000 em 2021. Quer se trate de uma população em crescimento ou de mudanças nos hábitos e preferências alimentares, não há dúvida de que os snacks têm uma enorme procura em todo o lado.
Feed extrusion was first developed over a century ago when steam and pressure were used to produce feed. Since then, extrusion machines have progressed to achieve a wide range of production outcomes and using an assortment of technologies.
When it comes to feed manufacturing, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Different outcomes—such as increasing digestibility, neutralizing anti-nutritional elements and sterilizing—drive individual processes and raw material usage.
In this blog, we’ll discuss the use and benefits of extrusion technology in animal food and aquatic feed production.
Food processing technologies, such as the extruder, use high heat and pressure conditions to prepare ingredients before they go into the pelletizer.
The extruder offers multiple benefits, as it increases the food’s hygienic properties, modifies th
e starch, and enhances metabolizable energy. This ensures better pellet production and increases the nutritional value of the food. As a result, animals can get the same nutrition from a smaller quantity of food.
The extruder can also be configured to ensures individual feed mixtures are free from pathogenic germs, dissolve easily in water, and have adequate flow properties that allow for quick discharge through automatic feeders.
When products are cooking inside the extruder, amorphous amylose and crystalline amylopectin are transformed. These are the two components of starch that affect digestibility. The starch added in the extruder binds ingredients together to make a stronger pellet that doesn’t disintegrate easily. This ensures efficient transportation of the pellets.
The loss of fertile farmland and lower agricultural production has pushed up the prices of traditional feed commodities such as soy and wheat. Coupled with the stagnating prices of meat on the other side, meat manufacturers have been forced to look into reducing production costs—including the cost of feed.
Feed extrusion technology allows users to produce animal feed efficiently, as they require much less time and manpower. Additionally, the flexibility of extruder machines and their control mechanisms allow users to receive the desired output with ease.
With all these benefits, we can expect feed processing technologies to increase in both use and scope.
A pandemia de coronavírus exacerbou as preocupações globais com a escassez de alimentos, deixando o mundo numa crise de fome sem precedentes. O Programa Alimentar Mundial (PAM) das Nações Unidas diretor avisado em janeiro de 2020, que "o pior ainda está para vir", uma vez que mais de 260 milhões de pessoas estão à beira da fome e esperam enfrentar múltiplas fomes "de proporções bíblicas" nos próximos meses.
A tecnologia de extrusão tem vindo a fazer ondas na área da produção alimentar há já algum tempo. Sabemos que pode permitir a produção de uma grande variedade de produtos em quantidades massivas e nas formas e texturas desejadas. Permite um processo contínuo e sem falhas, o que significa custos mais baixos e mais produção.
A sua empresa está em perigo! Se ainda não informatizou os processos operacionais do seu negócio alimentar, tem de agir agora! A automação industrial é a única maneira de sobreviver. Se continuar a depender de processos manuais, irá desperdiçar muitas oportunidades e restringir o crescimento do seu negócio. (mais…)
