ServoForm SFX

Baker Perkins has developed cooking and depositing technology to enable confectionery companies to take advantage of an exciting new range of products with a highly distinctive taste and mouth feel, featuring crystallised Xylitol.

Combining a Xylitol element with a sugar-free hard candy component creates a more sophisticated product appealing to adult consumers and commanding a higher price.

It goes a stage beyond sugar-free candy by adding a positive dental health benefit.

Xylitol is a long-established, tooth-friendly sugar substitute offering well-proven health benefits.  These include a reduction in tooth decay with long-lasting protection against caries, and suitability for diabetics because of a low glycemic index.

For diet-oriented consumers, Xylitol has 40% less calories than other carbohydrates.

The properties of crystallised Xylitol are a clear-cut cooling sensation that can augment breath/mouth freshening applications.   This is coupled to a distinctive mouth feel: combined with a conventional sugar-free component, the result is a product that has contrasting taste and texture sensations.

Hard candy/Xylitol combinations consist of separate deposited components, one crystallised Xylitol, and the other a sugar-free syrup based on Isomalt or Maltitol combinations.

They are deposited in various combinations including layered and side-by-side; there is also virtually limitless scope for colour and flavour combinations to maximise the natural sensation.

They can be branded as totally sugar-free candies to match a healthy lifestyle, and as functional products with additives for purposes such as breath freshening or nasal decongestion.

Marketeers will welcome the possibility of positioning a product that tastes great and does you good.

There is considerable potential to reach new consumers, particularly in markets such as Europe and North America.

Baker Perkins developed the new ServoForm SFX depositing solution as a complete production system, specifically for healthy confectionery.

It includes two cooking elements – a well-proven Turbofilm plate pack model for conventional hard candy, plus a unique crystallisation process for Xylitol.

The unique solution for Xylitol depositing is the Baker Perkins Gemini twin-headed depositor.

Already in commercial operation, these depositors can be configured to produce clearly defined layers of Xylitol and sugar-free candy.

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