Dairy Processing and Equipment - Articles - Page 84

Research shows how to reduce sodium in cheese

Public health concerns over hypertension have cheesemakers looking to reduce sodium. Research has found that a little dairy in a DASH diet reduces the risk of high blood pressure.

Nigel Kirtley

May 15, 2012

Pressure from public health authorities to reduce sodium in the food supply continues to grow. There are many sides to the debate. Though dairy foods in total contribute only 11% of the sodium in the U.S. diet, the dairy industry has recognized the need to address these concerns and has been taking action. Being proactive helps the industry identify solutions that make sense for the food supply, the dairy business and consumers’ health and taste preferences.

Gifford's makes ice cream with family recipes, vintage equipment

Gifford’s makes the world’s best chocolate ice cream using old-fashioned recipes and equipment at its little plant in Skowhegan.

James Carper

May 15, 2012

The Gifford’s Ice Cream processing plant is tucked into a hillside on Hathaway Street in Skowhegan, Maine. This unassuming little band box of a building gives no hint that inside, production workers are creating super premium ice cream that is sold in company-owned and independently owned scoop shops and by retailers from Maine to Maryland.

Formulating ice cream with prebiotics, probiotics

Processors can introduce these healthy bacteria into frozen desserts by using syrups, sauces and inclusions.

Bruce Tharp

Steven Young

May 14, 2012

In our February column we discussed the importance of digestive health as the basis of all good nutrition and the role ice cream products could play in terms of providing probiotic (consumption of “live and active beneficial” bacteria) and/or probiotic friendly (that is, prebiotic) mix ingredients. We reviewed delivery of probiotics via active culturing and/or cold inoculation.

Trade shows

Dairy Show, Process Expo cooperate on 2013 Chicago show

May 7, 2012

The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) today announced that they have signed an agreement to co-locate Process Expo and the International Dairy Show in Chicago, beginning in 2013. The two shows will take place November 3-6, 2013, bringing together over 800 exhibitors and 15,000 industry professionals in the North and South Halls of McCormick Place. Attendees will have unlimited access to both show floors and educational programs.

GAMAJET: cleaning systems for dairy plants

April 29, 2012

Every Gamajet CIP/COP system utilizes a patented technology, which distributes two high-impact cleaning jets along the tank interior in a precise 360-degree pattern, using a fraction of the water consumed by sprayballs, in less than half the time.

Dairy foods packaging

Lamican's aseptic liquid packaging systems for dairy foods

April 17, 2012

Lamican Oy sells and manufactures aseptic liquid packaging systems for the dairy, smoothie, water and juice industries. Its new innovative system is based on a fiber-containing can solution offering a new shape for the single-serving package. The company has been manufacturing these kind of cans for almost 20 years. Its production facilities are located in Valkeakoski, Finland.

Pumps and valves

Pumps and valves roundtable: The discussion continues online

April 12, 2012

In Best practices for pumps and valves in dairy processing plants, manufacturers discuss how the equipment can be used most efficiently, how to choose the right equipment and whether to buy only OEM replacement parts. In this dairyfoods.com exclusive, we include responses from other manufacturers not included in the magazine article.

Meet Bill Weigel, the owner of Weigel's convenience stores

James Carper

April 11, 2012

As Bill Weigel navigates his Toyota Avalon down Tennessee State Highway 131 through Powell, Tenn., he points out landmarks from his boyhood. There is the house where his grandmother lived. Over there is the orchard where he went for an apple to mask the tobacco on his breath from smoking (at age 9) his homemade corncob pipe. And that’s where he boarded the bus and rode to the big city (Knoxville) all by himself before he was even 10 years old.

HARPAK-ULMA: filling equipment for dairy processing

April 10, 2012

The VS/BL lobe fillers fill smooth products such as yogurt and juice, while the VF/SPM piston filler fills viscous products with large particulate, such macaroni and cheese and ricotta

Broadacre Dairy processes award-winning chocolate milk for Weigel's convenience store

James Carper

April 10, 2012

Fluid milk processing facilities are generally the same. They all have rooms for milk intake, separating, homogenizing and filling. Broadacre Dairy has one building on the edge of its property that makes it unique among dairy processors: a log cabin where the owner was born.