Solid drinks are solid products that are processed into powder, granular or block form using food raw materials, food additives, etc., for brewing or drinking, and are ordinary foods.
We can offer customized services like OEM ODM Supplements.
The solid beverages we can customize include but are not limited to the following:
Probiotic powder, Fruit and vegetable powder, Protein powder, Coffee powder, Tea powder.
We have an aseptic production workshop as well as a final product processing workshop where we can create a variety of tablets, capsules, and fill powder.
Freeze drying and spray drying are currently the main processing methods in solid beverage production.
Freeze drying is an advanced drying process that can better retain the nutrition and flavor of raw materials, but its application is limited.
Spray drying technology is suitable for drying liquid materials with high juice content. Because the materials are heated at a low temperature and for a short time, the nutrients and flavor components of the raw materials can be better retained.
Other processing methods for solid beverages include spray freeze drying, vacuum drying, etc.
1. Freeze-drying method
The freeze-drying method freezes the water in the material into solid ice. Under vacuum conditions, the water directly sublimates into water vapor and escapes, thereby removing the water from the material. It is characterized by well-preserved nutrients and volatile components, but the processing cost is high. Therefore, freeze-drying is rarely used to produce solid beverages. Only a few products with higher added value such as instant tea powder and coffee powder are produced in this way.
2. Spray drying
Spray drying is a process that uses an atomizer to disperse the material liquid into fine droplets, and rapidly evaporates the solvent in the hot drying medium to form dry powder. The form of the material liquid can be a solution, suspension, emulsion, etc. that can be transported by a pump. In liquid form, the dry product can be in the form of powder, granules or agglomerated granules.
The production range of spray-dried solid beverages is very wide. In addition to the widely used milk powder, instant soybean powder and tomato powder, lychee powder, lotus root powder, banana powder, strawberry powder, etc. have also been reported.
The powder processed by spray drying has little nutritional loss and good color. In addition to being directly prepared, it can also be used as an ingredient. However, spray-dried powder generally has smaller particle size and poor reconstitution ability, and needs to be granulated before it can be directly reconstituted. Instant milk powder is the most typical solid beverage that is quickly dissolved in hot and cold water through spray drying and agglomeration.
Solid beverages usually do not require the addition of preservatives and have the advantages of being dry and easy to store, light in weight, small in size, easy to carry, good in flavor, good in instant solubility, and convenient to drink.
Solid beverages are loved by consumers because of their rich variety, unique taste, and easy storage. Especially those solid beverages containing nutrients such as dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids, which can effectively supplement the nutrients needed for human metabolism.
