Nature's Mix

自然的混合

• 批准号: 543383-2019
• 负责人: Fennessy, Barbara
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Conestoga College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=680940
• 关键词: Nature; Mix

Nature's Mix, located in Cambridge Ontario, is a producer of healthy granola mixes. The company currently produces 17 different granola mixes to supply to the health food market in Ontario. Nature's Mix is interested in expanding and automating their production line to increase product supply to meet growing customer demand.The unique combination of ingredients in the granola mix requires optimization of cooking parameters including temperature and time, mixing method, and air flow in the headspace. Therefore, choosing a suitable cooking technology for this kind of a mixture is challenging. To achieve optimum quality of the cooked granola mix, the cooking equipment should be capable of controlling temperature, continuously mixing the material at a given speed, and removing the moist air from the system. The existing technology does not meet all these requirements. Thus, the research project holds two objectives: 1) development of a prototype for cooking granola mix and that meets company specifications, and 2) evaluation of the effects of this new technology on product quality.The research team at Conestoga College's Institute for Food Processing Technology (IFPT) will conduct experiments to prototype an equipment with novel technology that the company can utilize in cooking granola at an elevated scale, but without altering the product quality. Nature's Mix will benefit through increased sales growth in the healthy food product market, scaled up production, and creation of new employment opportunities.

Nature's Mix位于安大略省剑桥，是健康格兰诺拉麦片混合物的生产商。该公司目前生产17种不同的格兰诺拉麦片混合物，为安大略省的健康食品市场提供。大自然的组合有兴趣扩展和自动化其生产线以增加产品供应以满足不断增长的客户需求。格兰诺拉麦片混合物中的成分的独特组合需要优化烹饪参数，包括温度和时间，混合方法以及顶空中的空气流量。因此，为这种混合物选择合适的烹饪技术是具有挑战性的。为了达到煮熟的格兰诺拉麦片混合物的最佳质量，烹饪设备应能够控制温度，以给定的速度连续混合材料，并从系统中取出潮湿的空气。现有技术不符合所有这些要求。因此，研究项目具有两个目标：1）开发用于烹饪麦片混合的原型并符合公司的规格，以及2）评估这项新技术对产品质量的影响。ConestogaCollege的食品加工技术研究所的研究团队（IFPT）的研究团队将在不使用烹饪的Granola中使用新颖的公司来实现实验，以实验实验，以使其适用于Granola，但可以在Granola中进行质量。大自然的组合将通过增加健康食品市场的销售增长，扩大生产以及创造新的就业机会而受益。