Puffed food is popular with consumers nowadays. Those puffed snacks in supermarkets, although they are said to be unhealthy, are still happy to buy. The reason why puffed food is so popular is that it tastes delicious and crisp, is easy to carry and eat, raw materials are widely used, and tastes are changeable. Therefore, puffed food has become increasingly popular. With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, food which is popular with consumers has become an important part of the food industry, and its market potential is huge. The market demand of puffed food also drives the development of mechanical equipment behind it.
Current Development of Expansion Technology in China
Food puffing technology has a long history in China. Due to various reasons, the development of modern puffing technology in China is slow. It was not until the late 1970s that the research on modern puffing technology and puffed food began in China. In the early 1980s, puffed leisure food began to appear, which enriched the traditional Chinese leisure food represented by melon seeds, peanuts, biscuits and candy, and also led to the establishment and growth of a number of new enterprises.
In the 1990s, with the further expansion of the consumer market, the gradual maturity of domestic puffing technology and the entry of international puffing food enterprises into China, advanced technology, equipment and experience have been brought, and puffing food enterprises have embarked on the road of industrialization. Entering the 21st century, more and more leisure foods are emerging, and puffed foods made of various raw materials are dazzling, enriching the food market and people's lives.
Due to different uses and equipment, there are three types of puffed food: one is to use extruder to produce snacks with corn and potatoes as raw materials; the other is to use extruder to produce tissue protein food (vegetable meat) with vegetable protein as raw material; and the third is to use cereals, beans or potatoes as raw materials, after puffed. Staple food. In addition to the trial production of indirect heating puffing machine, a variety of puffed foods were also prepared by using the concentrate puffed powder.
Therefore, the expander should strive to improve to meet the market demand. On the one hand, the innovative ability of food extruding machinery manufacturing enterprises should be strengthened, on the other hand, the brand awareness of enterprises should be strengthened; on the other hand, the production concentration should be strengthened.
Expanding machinery production needs to meet four major needs
Like general food machinery, puffing machinery should not only meet the production conditions as mechanical equipment, but also meet the special requirements for food. Throughout the development needs of the industry, the following four aspects can be considered roughly:
1. Scale applicability. The equipment used by the puffed food processing enterprises in China is mainly divided into three scales: large, medium and small. According to the national industrial policy and industry development requirements, we should focus on the development of medium and large scale production, while small-scale production enterprises should be self-reliant and self-extinct according to the law of market economy. However, the equipment produced by the expanding machinery manufacturing industry in China is mainly equipped with small and medium-sized enterprises, while the large-scale complete sets of equipment still have a large number of imports.
2. Safety applicability. Safety applicability is mechanical safety, production safety and food safety in puffed food processing. One is mechanical safety. It is caused by the effect that the machinery does not produce harm and reduces the mechanical risk to the minimum. Second, production safety. Enough to work safety, industrial hygiene, ensure the safety and health of workers in production as the premise, from the management, production technology and equipment use to regulate people's safety behavior and material conditions required for safe production. Third, food safety. Dog food production equipment mainly includes food hygiene, food quality, food nutrition and other related aspects.
3. Suitability of complete set. In industrial food processing, most of them are not enough for single machine production, but are matched with production lines for operation. Therefore, the applicability of a complete set is an important link to ensure continuous operation, balanced production, processing performance and product quality. Its set of principles are to achieve a reasonable economic scale, meet technological requirements and reasonable matching between equipment and equipment, so as to ensure the normal operation of the production line, safety and health, save energy consumption and maintenance parties. It is convenient to ensure the advanced, reasonable and reliable of the whole production line.
4. Health applicability. It is the requirement of mechanical structure in the design and manufacture of extruded food machinery, mainly including the structural material, surface structure, cleanliness, durability and inspectability of product contact surface and non-product contact surface. For the mechanical structure of food machinery, the key control points of hygienic hazard should be determined and adopted. Measures to ensure the hygienic requirements of mechanical structures.
Conclusion:
At present, the production of puffed food by puffed technology in China is still in its infancy. Therefore, puffed theory and puffed technology should be actively studied, and new products should be continuously developed. It is believed that with the development of the above work and the improvement of people's living standards, puffed food that meets the needs of the public will develop rapidly. However, the huge food industry market in China is also forcing the continuous transformation and upgrading of food machinery and equipment. Only when the machinery and equipment meet the market demand, can we produce products that meet the market and make the industry develop.
