Customer Success Story: Market Segment: Vegan production of fruit juice Food & Beverage

Gelatin was yesterday – plant protein is today

Location: “Eaton not only provides Background for juicing and the viscosity of Germany the liquid phase is lowered by The trend towards vegan entire filtration systems to breaking down soluble pectin. nutrition is well underway and in Challenge: After pressing, the extracted more demand than ever, which Finding a plant-based gelatin fruit juice manufacturer juice once again undergoes is having a particular impact on substitute for the vegan production enzymatic treatment, and pectin but also helps with the production of fruit juice. To of apple juice without changing the and starch are completely expand the range of available production process process optimization and broken down at around vegan products, beverage 122 °F. Now it is optimally finding solutions, using a manufacturers and the retail Solution: prepared for the subsequent sector are required to satisfy Plant-based SIHA Pea Protein holistic approach.” clarification, while starch and the high demand for juices that combined with bentonite and araban secondary hazes are do not use adjuvants of animal silica sol avoided. Following this, fining, Amos von Bruening, origin. clarification, and stabilization Results: Area Sales Manager A well-known fruit juice take place using a fining The production of a clearer, more Fruit Juices and Spirits manufacturer produces around stable vegan fruit juice that does not Eaton Technologies GmbH combination from bentonite, 32 million gallons of juice require any changes to the gelatin, and silica sol. It ensures production process or new – from high-quality freshly fruit juices and concentrates investments squeezed juices (NFC – not are effectively clarified, and from concentrate) to juice stabilizes them against protein concentrates and even purées and tannic secondary hazes of pome, stone, and soft by removing components that fruit, each year. The focus is cause turbidity. on the processing of around This step follows a two-stage 150,000 tons of apples, from filtration process: first over which some 8 million gallons membranes (ultrafiltration) and of apple juice and apple juice subsequently over depth filter concentrate is filtered per year. sheets, which serve to remove In order to extract apple juice thermo acidophilic bacteria as and apple juice concentrate, well as their spores, such as various process steps are carried alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris. out. At the beginning, there is The clear juice or the apple juice the enzymation of the mash. concentrate (after an additional As part of this, the material for concentration process) are finally pressing is optimally prepared stored or shipped. Challenge Solution Result In principle, fining agents help To achieve the same results The SIHA Pea Protein was remove undesirable turbidity and as with gelatin, application able to be integrated into the the causes of turbidity from fruit specialists from Eaton developed fining process without any juices, making them visually and a standard combination fining problems and will be used as sensorily appealing to with SIHA® Pea Protein with an equivalent alternative to consumers. Until now in the help of preliminary tests. gelatin. The pre-soaking of the traditional fining of juices, fruit Due to its plant origin, and good pea protein and the amended juice manufacturers have used clarification and stabilization order of the individual products gelatin as a fining agent for juice properties, it is suitable as a in the combination fining were clarification and stabilization. vegan gelatin substitute. An the only minimal adjustments for As gelatin is an animal protein, additional benefit is that no new the manufacture of clarity and however, even using it purely as investments in equipment or storage-stable vegan apple juice. SIHA Pea Protein is a vegan a technical tool does not comply additional tools are needed. In It was demonstrated in the beverage treatment agent. The with the principles of vegan addition, it is allergen-free and downward ultra and sheet natural pea protein is extracted from nutrition. Consumer demand for GMO-free. filtration that the apple juice peas and is GMO-free and allergen- free. In the combination fining vegan juices is continuously For the best results, Eaton also clarified with the pea protein growing, due to increasing could be filtered at the same using bentonite and silica sol, it determined in the preliminary replaces gelatin for vegan fining and environmental awareness or the tests the order in which the filtration velocity (flux rate) as religion of the target group. the non-vegan apple juice. clarification of beverages, such as three fining agents: bentonite, fruit juice and wine. In response to this trend, the pea protein, and silica sol should By using plant proteins, the fruit fruit juice manufacturer decided be added. The dosage and juice manufacturer has not only to include vegan apple juice in reaction time of the individual found a vegan alterative for its range and turned to its long- components also plays an clarifying and stabilizing their standing business partner Eaton important role in maintaining a fruit juices but also partnered to replace the traditional gelatin clear and stable product. with Eaton´s experts to develop with vegan products, such as As part of the vegan combination a solution that does not change pea and potato proteins. The fining, the pea protein (which is their tried and tested production challenge was achieving the pre-soaked in water) is evenly process. same level of clarity and distributed in the filtered juice via stabilization with the plant an agitator. After a short reaction proteins as the gelatin, while not time, bentonite (which is also changing the existing production pre-soaked) is then included, process. before the last component of the “Eaton not only provides entire combination (silica sol) is added. filtration systems to fruit juice The fining agent and cloudy manufacturer but also helps with substances are subsequently process optimization and finding separated using the ultrafiltration solutions, using a holistic system, while germs and spores approach,” explains Amos von are removed with a downstream Bruening, Area Sales Manager plate and frame filter. Fruit Juices and Spirits at Eaton.

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