Food extruders: The most indispensable machine for production of quality food

Food extrusion, one of the latest technological breakthrough in the food processing industry provides a foundation for continuous and rapid food production. Food extruders utilize single, rotating or twin screws for mixing, kneading, shearing, shaping, transporting or cooking multiple ingredients together to form a homogeneous food product. This they do, by forcing the mix of ingredients through pre-formed dies to churn up desired shapes, lengths and sizes. Food extruders possess the ability to produce varied food products, ranging from pasta, cereals, snacks, baby food and pet food, to beverage bases, confectionery products and other baked food items.

SunPring Food extruders have modular designs that allow easy transition of a single product to another in terms of shape, color, texture or size. They offer significant efficiency in food processing, which is why they form an indispensable part and parcel of food processing technology. Few other reasons to vouch for their usefulness in food processing are listed below:

Continuous production of uniform food products: Food extruders with their dynamic construction and processing efficiency have a high capacity to produce food products of uniform shape, size or texture at a continuous pace. The single screw extruder deserves special mention here, as it finds immense usage in the food processing industry owing to its high process efficiency of fried or baked snacks. They also act as a perfect equipment for preparing ready-to-eat cereals in a jiffy. Since the processing conditions can be varied according to residence time and temperature, food extruders indeed form a convenient cooker, one that can be adjusted according to needs.

A breakthrough in the snack industry: Food extruders of the counter-rotating twin-screw type have emerged as the major breakthrough of snack industry, as they can process with ease, food substances of non-viscous nature, that require relatively lower speeds and greater residence times, like licorice confections, gum, candy or jelly. Food extruders by being extremely amenable to user controls have broadened the range of food products that can be prepared through food processing and that are commonly produced by the snack industry. They also allow high heat transfer to ensure homogeneous mixing of food products and gooey mixtures.

Individual shearing for each food product: Another reason why SunPring food extruders qualify as integral components of food processing is because of their shearing action, which can be adjusted to either low, medium or high. Shearing stress of varying intensities are essential in the production of food materials of varying moisture levels. While low stress extruders densify food products rich in moisture like pasta, medium shear extruders can handle products having a lower level of moisture, like pet food, vegetable proteins and aquatic feeds.

Maximum efficiency with minimum waste: Due to their high process efficiency, food extruders convert food products into palatable forms rapidly, thus minimizing both the time and waste of the production. They are the only equipment that can handle both viscous and non-viscous food with equal ease. Twin-screw food extruders can handle sticky, oily, wet or viscous materials easily, by offering a positive pumping force and minimum pulsation at die. Thus food extruders raise the efficiency and lessen the time consumed in food processing

One of the latest technology in food processing, extrusion takes the concept of food processing to an entirely different level. SunPring Food extruders have the advantage of producing a more consistent and uniform cooking process, that results in a final food product of maximum quality and minimum waste. Being a highly efficient process, extrusion allows multiple steps to be carried out at a singe time, like blending, cooking, cooling, forming and cutting.

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