Turn sugar into probiotics to boost your gut health
If your stomach is often upset, you should prioritize your gut health! An easy way to improve this is by taking pre-and probiotics.
Evident superstars in that world are Fructo-Oligo-Saccharides otherwise known as FOS. For example, they are found in bananas, asparagus, and garlic. As the name suggests they come from sugar and to extract them on an industrial scale you’ll need to convert a sugar derivate enzymatically.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, you first need to make a sugar derivate!
Unleash the power of your sugar derivate with a vacuum drier
Let’s take Maltodextrin as an example. You’ll need to process your veggies with a high starch content. Then you need to perform a starch hydrolysis so long chains of starch molecules are turned into shorter chains of glucose. That needs to be isolated.
Then you have to dry the solution. Bucher Merk has developed The DryBand system to make it as easy as possible. First, you will load your maltodextrin solution on the belts with swivel feeders. It is then fed in doses into an intermediate chamber under a vacuum, where the product will be dried. Vacuum drying is a good solution because it uses lower temperatures than direct drying methods and can be easily controlled.
Using the DryBand will minimize the risk of thermal degradation, ensuring that your sugar derivative maintains its integrity. It turns your solution into a powder, that can be further processed to make FOS.
