Powdery caramel pigment and manufacturing method thereof

Abstract

The invention relates to a powdery caramel pigment and a manufacturing method thereof, belonging to the technical field of natural pigment manufacture. The powdery caramel pigment is manufactured by using barley as raw material, soaking and germinating the barley under certain conditions, and then conducting heat preservation, baking, cooling and crushing. The method does not need the processes of crushing the raw material, adding enzyme for liquefaction, saccharifying or acidolysis, and does not add amino-compound additionally. The powdery caramel pigment uses reducing sugar and free amino in malt to conduct Maillard reaction and using little molecular saccharides to conduct caramelization under a high temperature so as to produce present-color materials and fragrant substances. The powdery caramel pigment has the advantages of simple technique route, convenient operation, high edible safety of products and the like. The solid product is easily packaged, stored and transported.

Description

technical field [0001] A powdery caramel pigment and a preparation method thereof, which belong to the technical field of natural pigment production. Background technique [0002] Caramel coloring is the largest and most popular of the food colorings people use. Its physical properties are dark brown to black liquid, lumpy, powdery or pasty substances, with special fragrance and pleasant bitter taste, which can stimulate people's senses and increase people's appetite to a certain extent. [0003] The current manufacturing methods include non-ammonium (ammonia) method and ammonium (ammonia) method. [0004] Non-ammonia (ammonium) method: When the sugary raw material (such as: sucrose) is heated to 180-200°C, a caramelization reaction occurs to caramelize it and produce a pigment. [0005] Ammonia (ammonium) method: Amino compounds are added to sugary raw materials (starch hydrolyzate, molasses from sugar cane sugar factories or beet sugar factories, etc.), and at a certain ...

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Problems solved by technology

The method is to pulverize the raw materials first, and then react with the added amino compound after gelatinization, saccharification or acid hydrolysis to prepare liquid caramel pigment. The process route is long and the production cost is high.

There are no patents or research reports about using grains and potatoes as raw materials without adding enzymes for liquefaction, saccharification or acid hydrolysis, and without adding amino compounds.