What Is Honey Powder Used For?

Honey powder, also known as dry honey powder, is a solid powder made from high-quality honey through filtration, microencapsulation technology, blending, concentration, crystallization and drying.

Application scope

1. In bakery products

In the baking industry, honey powder can be widely used in various baked goods such as bread, cakes, biscuits, and moon cakes, as well as in making various pre-mixed powders. It can be used as a product improver and nutritional agent, and can also be used as a sucrose-free sweetener. , the specific functions are as follows.

⑴. Effectively improve the organizational structure of baked products, making the product appearance upright and elastic;

⑵. Improve the shape and taste of the product, helping the product to maintain a moist and soft state in baked goods containing more water; in products with high sugar content and low water content, it can promote the product to form a hard or crispy texture;

⑶. The large amount of monosaccharides contained in honey powder (honey) can directly be used as the main energy source for yeast fermentation, which can promote the reproduction and fermentation of yeast;

⑷. During the baking process, honey will cause the product to form a golden or brown skin and a baking aroma, and the coloring time is short, which can appropriately reduce the baking time and temperature. It is a good natural coloring agent;

⑸. Honey acts as a dehydrator during the dough mixing process, which can effectively improve the physical properties of the dough, adjust the swelling degree of gluten, increase the plasticity of the dough, make the product beautiful in appearance and clear in pattern, and prevent the product from shrinking and deforming;

⑹. The natural fructose in honey is hygroscopic and moisturizing, which is beneficial to making various high-water-containing pastries, and can keep baked goods such as bread and cakes soft for a longer period of time;

⑺. Honey powder can not only enhance the unique flavor of baked products, but also effectively suppress bad odors and improve product performance. For example, when added to cakes, it can remove the eggy smell and various undesirable astringency, and it can be used in moon cake crusts. It can greatly shorten the oil return time;

⑻. It is easy to use and can be directly mixed into flour. It is suitable for large-scale industrial production and is suitable for use in central factories of baking companies or other frozen dough factories.

Used in bread

Honey powder can effectively improve the texture characteristics of bread, effectively improve the elasticity, cohesion and recovery of bread, and can reduce the hardness of bread core and improve the quality of bread. Honey powder can increase the specific volume of bread to a certain extent, improve the taste of bread, reduce costs, and achieve better quality.

Use in cakes

The use of honey powder in cakes can significantly improve the taste and aroma of the cake, mask the eggy and greasy smell, and can significantly improve the hardness, cohesion, elasticity and recovery of the cake. The overall structure of the cake with honey powder is softer and the internal structure is softer. The color is golden yellow, which can significantly shorten the oil return time and increase the coloring speed of the cake. Therefore, the baking time and temperature should be appropriately adjusted when baking cakes with honey powder added.

Apply in cookies

Adding honey powder can significantly improve the smell and taste of tough biscuits and crisp biscuits. The combination of honey powder and milk powder in an appropriate proportion can make the biscuits have a rich milky aroma and make the products crispy. Adding honey powder to tough biscuits significantly increases the hardness. At the same time, honey powder can promote the coloring of tough biscuits, and can significantly improve the smell and taste of tough biscuits, making the tough biscuits more crispy.

Application in moon cakes

⑴. The skin is crystal clear, the color is bright and attractive, and the taste is cotton sand;

⑵. The oil returns quickly. The oil return time of mooncakes added with honey powder can be shortened by more than half;

⑶. Improve the quality of mooncakes to improve their sensory indicators;

⑷. Effectively reduce the amount of sucrose used and suitable for more people to eat;

2. In dairy products and cold drink products

⑴. It can best integrate the flavors of several different ingredients in the product to highlight and achieve the characteristics pursued by the final product. Especially, it has obvious good functions of covering up, suppressing and modifying the rough taste and bad flavor in mid- to low-end products. At the same time, it can indirectly serve as the flavor base of the base, making the final product taste full, mellow, delicate and smooth, and have a natural aftertaste. With its comprehensive advantages and functions, this product is an ideal excipient unmatched by any additive. Using honey powder, pure milk flavor, peanut flavor, wheat flavor products and chocolate flavor, taro, nut flavor, whole grain and other products in liquid milk and cold drink products will get the best taste and natural flavor.

⑵. For cold drink products, it also has the advantages of quick surface drying, small ice crystals, more delicate tissue structure, chewier texture and enhanced melt resistance.

⑶. There are obvious differences in functions and advantages between honey powder and liquid honey in the traditional sense. Honey powder has special advantages over liquid honey in terms of food hygiene and safety, such as impurities invisible to the naked eye in liquid honey, a large number of sugar-resistant yeasts, various pollen, potential risks to people with allergies, and instability to the final product. Many problems such as sex will cause liquid honey to be unable to meet the needs of large-scale industrial continuous production. The application and effect of honey seed powder in ice cream products.

3. In the ice cream

The application of honey powder in ice cream products originated in the United States. After many years of application practice in the ice cream industry in North America and Europe, a fixed and mature production and processing technology has been formed, and it can replace part of fresh milk and milk powder in the product. Honey seed powder is a natural food additive that integrates nature, nutrition, health care, functionality, and reduces enterprise production costs in the application of ice cream products.

Specifically reflected in the following aspects:

Improve and enhance the taste and flavor of ice cream products. Honey powder indirectly plays the role of base flavor, making the product taste and flavor unmatched by any artificial sugar flavoring, truly achieving a refreshing, soft and waxy taste in the mouth. , lasting aftertaste;

Enhance the anti-solubility of the product. Natural honey has its unique water-holding and moisturizing properties, which improves the anti-solubility of the product. At the same time, dry bee powder also has the functions of thickener, binder and stabilizer, and is also the most effective. The best extender; Since the pH value of natural honey tends to be acidic, the use of honey seed powder in ice cream products can effectively inhibit the production of some harmful microorganisms.

Make the structure of ice cream products more delicate, and at the same time have the effects of fast surface drying and small ice crystals;

Easy to add, easy to quantify, and ensure product hygiene index requirements. It does not change or affect the existing production process, and is especially suitable for large-scale food industry production using honey powder. While comprehensively improving product quality, it can also effectively reduce the company's production costs, especially for high-quality ice cream products. protrude.

4. In meat products

The application of honey powder in the meat products industry is an innovation of traditional production ingredients. It can not only improve the taste, texture and color of meat products, but also remove fishy smell, freshness and greasiness, etc. to achieve the desired purpose. At the same time, it can also Can improve product yield rate. Honey powder shows better water-holding effect, which reduces the hardness of the product, increases the moisture content, improves the taste and tenderness, and makes the product beautiful in texture. The unique composition of natural fructose, glucose and various natural amino acids in honey powder can make the color of the product natural, bright and attractive, and protect the color for a long time during the production and integration process of meat products.

5. Among other products

Such as non-dairy cream, peanut butter, health products, etc., dry honey powder is used in such products to adjust and modify the aroma of the product to make it natural and mellow. It can also mask bad odors and make the product smooth, delicate, and It has a full mouthfeel and natural aftertaste, which significantly improves the taste and flavor of the product.

Honey powder not only retains the nutritional value of honey, but also overcomes the inconveniences of liquid honey during use. Therefore, as a new natural and healthy food ingredient, it is widely used in baking, ice cream, dairy products, etc. in the food industry. Meat products, condiments, breakfast cereals, nutritional cereals, etc., and can also be used in many industries such as health care products and pharmaceuticals.

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