Food ingredients
Dietary Fiber
Dietary fiber, found mainly in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, is probably best known for positive role in digestive well-being. But, foods containing fiber can provide other health benefits as well, such as helping to maintain a healthy weight and lowering the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Dietary fiber can be used in a variety of functional foods, such as bakery and meat products, as well as beverages. Although a number of techniques can be used to alter the physicochemical properties of dietary fiber — extrusion, canning, grinding, boiling or frying — these non-digestible carbohydratescan be difficult to process.
However, GEA offers a choice of spray and solid feed dryers (ring, flash and swirl) in different configurations that can be adapted to dry any specific fiber product. In fact, a broad range of feed materials, including powders, cakes, granules, flakes, pastes, gels and slurries can be processed, and specific designs can be chosen to provide a precise residence time to dry difficult products. In addition, a low temperature recycling system for heat-sensitive products is also available.
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Flash Dryers & Coolers
With a history spanning from the Flash dryer's invention in 1928 to the development of unrivaled dispersion equipment and the most efficient integrated systems, no one knows more about Flash drying than GEA.
Hygienic valves & components
Hygienic valves from GEA form the core component of matrix-piped process plants. Thanks to a pioneering valve concept that sets standards for its flexibility, as well as the latest control and automation functions, our valves offer manufacturers maximum product safety and process reliability. All GEA hygienic valves are designed to be efficient a...
Jet pumps
Jet pumps, also referred to as ejectors, are devices for the conveyance, compression or mixing of gases, vapors, liquids or solids and for the production of vacuum in which a gaseous or liquid medium serves as the motive force.
R&D Drying Systems
GEA's versatile range of R&D drying & particle processing equipment - for advanced powder processing within food and dairy products, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
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