MOTHERS NEVER THINK OF GMF-GOUDA
WHEN FEEDING THEIR BABIES
THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH QUALITY BABY FOOD REQUIRES HIGH QUALITY MACHINERY IN BOTH DESIGN AND USE, IN A WELL-THOUGH-OF PROCESS.
Mothers are very careful when the health of their children is concerned. Therefore, food manufacturers - logically - only choose the best process they can find for the production of infant food.
A constant quality and a recognizable colour, taste, and texture are of utmost importance.
Infant food, either cereal or rice-based, is given to children from the age of four months onwards, starting in a period in which babies develop their own preferences in taste. Gradually, the texture of their food is changed from liquid to solid food. A balanced meal with the right amount of minerals and vitamins is undoubtedly extremely important for their health and growth.
By tradition, mothers give their young children instant porridge. For more than a century, instant cereal-based baby-food has been manufactured on drum dryers. Due to the organoleptic properties obtained from this type of process, what can not be achieved by other processes, these drum dried products with their easy-to-prepare characteristic have become the standard for this well-known cereal-based infant food, which can be found in pharmacies and supermarkets all over the world.
By using the drum drying technology, it is guaranteed that the product will be fully gelatinized, so that it can be broken down and digested in the human body. The gelatinisation of the starch in the product also makes the product easily soluble during reconstitution, resulting in a smooth and light viscous porridge. The very high protein solubility, good swelling behaviour, and water absorption of the final product is a unique combination of important product characteristics obtained by the drum drying process, something that can not be achieved with other processes. Moreover, the wet product is dried to the required final moisture content (to obtain a long shelf life) in one single process step, without the need of any additional equipment. Due to the intense temperature treatment of the product during the drying process on a drum dryer, the product is actually pasteurised while being dried.
GMF-Gouda, established in 1909 in the city of Gouda in the Netherlands, is synonym for drum drying. From the early days, GMF-Gouda Drum Dryers have been used for the production of cereal-based infant food, and a considerable number of 'Gouda' Drum Dryers have been exported to almost every country in the world. Today, GMF-Gouda is capable of engineering and handling complete projects starting from the intake of raw materials up to storage and packing of final product.
With its extensive experience in the field of drum drying, well equipped pilot plant facilities to simulate processes on a semi-industrial scale, modern manufacturing technologies, and well trained and enthusiastic employees , GMF-Gouda is set to guide, to assist and to help their customers to realize their goals in setting-up and maintaining a reliable production process.
GMF-GOUDA : SYNONYM FOR DRUM DRYING
For more information contact GMF-Gouda via their web-site WWW.GMFGOUDA.COM
