Flavour in ice cream
(11.01.2011, Roosendaal, The Netherlands)
Discover the flavour in ice cream with the right emulsifiers!
Try Sisterna® sucrose esters
Sisterna, supplier of Sisterna® sucrose esters, can help you improve the flavour outcome in your industrial ice cream.
Premium ice creams are often flavoured with high quality, expensive flavours. The intensity and the spectrum of the flavour are affected by the ice cream matrix. Emulsifiers and stabilisers are selected for their effect on the ice cream matrix e.g. the melting characteristics and stability. The most commonly used emulsifier, distilled monoglyceride (DMG), can give a waxy mouth feel which at the same time gives a sensation of flavour coverage.
Sucrose esters are known for their usage in artisanal ‘Italian’ ice cream. Bianca van Ingen, product manager at Sisterna explains ‘we were convinced of the unique functionalities of sucrose esters in artisanal ice cream. It was a matter of testing the effects in industrial ice cream to find the unique functions of sucrose esters in this product.’
In our lab a comparison is made between industrial vanilla ice cream (10% fat) based on 0.3% DMG or 0.3% Sisterna® sucrose esters. The most apparent difference lies in the flavour perception. A trained panel, blind tested both ice creams. They found a significant stronger creamy/buttery flavour attribute in the sucrose ester ice cream. After heat shocking (cycling over -10 to -20˚C) the ‘vanillic’ flavour attribute was significantly stronger in the sucrose ester ice cream.
Sisterna® sucrose esters can improve the flavour outcome in industrial ice cream. We recommend to partly replace DMG with Sisterna® sucrose esters at a ratio of 4:1 to 3:1.
Sisterna
Sisterna distinguishes itself as a flexible partner that will help to find technical solutions in the development, improvement and process optimising of food products. From the Netherlands Sisterna presents the most up-to-date service in sales support and knowledge development. Furthermore Sisterna has developed innovative applications of these emulsifiers in bakery, confectionery and emulsified sauces.
For more information about our company please take a look at www.sisterna.com.
