Ingredients, technology to aid shelf life & food safety
Editor’s Note: Food and beverage formulators are looking for more options and new options to enhance product shelf life and clean up ingredient labels. Here, Prepared Foods looks at two solutions including alternative ingredients and use of high-pressure processing. A third option involves the use of food safe, in-package oxygen absorbing desiccants. Readers considering this last solution can find suppliers by typing in “oxygen scavengers” at www.FoodMaster.com
Meanwhile, here’s how one equipment supplier, Hiperbaric, describes HPP and its benefits: