New core product
Food and beverage ingredients firm Döhler has unveiled what it is calling ‘a new generation of highly concentrated apple waterphase flavours’.
“Flavour expertise and innovative technologies for the gentle concentration of waterphases make it possible to develop individual flavour profiles that can be reproduced again and again – which allows them to be produced in large enough quantities,” says a company spokesman.
Döhler produces apple juice concentrate and apple juice flavours from fresh fruit at its production facilities in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, China and Turkey. It also sources apple waterphase 150-fold from contracted suppliers.
As apples are processed into apple juice, a gentle process is used to extract about 80% of the water contained in the juice. The flavour that evaporates along with the water is recovered through a distillation step in an integrated flavour recovery system in the form of an apple waterphase. As 150 litres of juice yield one litre of vapour rich in flavour, this product is called apple waterphase 150-fold.
Apple waterphase 150-fold may vary greatly in the concentration of flavour components, making it difficult to use in beverages for which consistent sensory properties are required. As a result, Döhler has installed systems for the gentle concentration of apple waterphases by way of distillation. Apple waterphases of particularly high quality, with a concentration of 2,500 to 15,000-fold, are the result of a concentration process of 17 to 100-fold and further specialised processes. This, says Döhler, allows individual flavour profiles to be reproduced again and again in large enough quantities.
