Whether referred to as premixes or preblends, the precise combining of ingredients into a single system allows processors to control consistency, as well as costs
A preblend or premix is a mixture of components that have been blended together, in-house or by an ingredient supplier, and provided to a processor as a preliminary step in the production of a final food or beverage product. Another way of stating this, perhaps more mathematical in derivation, is that a preblend is a subset of the ingredient list of the final product, mixed together before addition to the rest of the set of ingredients. Why use a mathematical description? Because the rationale for using preblends is all in the numbers.