The Use Of Food Emulsifier

We like to pay attention to the color, aroma, taste, form and structure of food, but harmless and nutritional is also important. As a food additive, safety is the most important condition, then is the process and performance. Therefore, the general requirements for food additives and their usage are:

1 The toxicological assessment on food safety should be fully proved. Make sure that the food additives are nonpoisonous and harmless to the human body in the limited long-term ingestion. 

2 Food additives would be involved in the body's normal metabolism, or it can be excreted out totally by a normal process of detoxification detoxify. They can not be broken down in the human body or have effects with food ingredients to form harmful or poisonous substances. 

3 Food additives should have strict hygiene standards and quality standards.

4 Food additives should not destroy the nutritional ingredients of food, as well as the quality and flavor of food.

5 Food additives should be helpful to the food production, processing, fabrication and storage processes. It needs to keep food nutrition, prevent food spoilage, enhance food sensory properties, improve product quality and has a significant effect  at a relatively low usage conditions.

No matter it is natural or synthetic food additives, they are essentially chemicals. Different food additives belongs to different types of chemical substances, and emulsifying agent is widely used in food processing. Emulsion agent can stable the food physical state, improve food organization structure and extend shelf life. Some common food ingredients are mutually not compatible and uneven mix of each component that leads to the food oil-water separation. But food emulsifying agent can solve these problems or phenomena. 

The amphiphilic character of emulsifier molecules, it can have specific interactions with food carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, etc. With the development of the food industry and the diversity of processed food, countries around the world have attached great importance to the development of food emulsifier in research, production and application. Nowadays, food emulsifiers are serialized, versatile, efficient, easy to use.

The variety of food emulsifiers is relatively stable, but the endless new foods and new food processing technology is more and more. From the viewpoint of ease of use, food emulsifying agents are transitioned from bulk products to the powder or liquid products. With the development of the food processing industry, food emulsifier application has a great development. Due to the developed food industry and the large proportion of meat products and dairy products, so the use amount and variety of food emulsifier is more and more. Article source: http://okfoodadd.blogspot.hk/2015/09/what-is-guar-gum.html.