How to use food thickeners

Introduction: thickener is a kind of food additive often used in our food industry The jelly we eat contains thickener What are the methods of using thickener? Is it safe to add thickener in food? Let's let the small edition of Baibai safety net tell you Thickener is a kind of food additive, which is mainly used to improve and increase the viscosity of food, keep the color, fragrance, taste and stability of liquid food and jelly food, improve the physical properties of food, and make the food have a sense of lubrication and palatability Thickeners can enhance the viscosity of food or form gelatin, thereby changing the physical properties of food, giving food sticky, suitable taste, and emulsifying, stabilizing or suspending 39 kinds of thickeners currently approved by China are available Thickeners are hydrophilic polymer compounds, also known as hydrosol According to their sources, they can be divided into two categories: natural and chemical synthesis (including semi synthesis) The usage of food thickener, the small edition of Baibai safety net tells us that before use, it is necessary to soak it in cold water for several hours (to avoid a large number of bubbles during heating and the rigid block caused by the final expansion) After the complete expansion, it is necessary to heat it with water separated, and the glue temperature is controlled below 70 ° C Make it completely dissolved before use The glue liquid that has not been used up shall be stored in a cold storage or a cool and ventilated place, so as to avoid hydrolysis and deterioration of the glue, which may affect the use In different foods, for example, gelatin has different dosage In meat products, meat filling products, frozen juice meat and other foods, the dosage of gelatin is 2% - 9%; in the production of fruit jelly, the dosage of gelatin is 2%; in the production of toffee, the dosage of gelatin is 0.4% - 1.5%; in the production of ice cream, the dosage of gelatin is 0.1% Is it safe to add thickeners to food? Because most of the thickeners added to food are natural, few of them are chemically synthesized thickeners, and their safety has been widely tested, and no harm to health has been found So you can use it safely Our understanding and learning of food safety knowledge is also helpful for the analysis of food safety problems It is even more important for the food safety detector to detect whether there are toxic substances in food Editor in charge: he xianrob