Late Stage Differentiation for Flavoring
Chewing Gum has traditionally been manufactured in large batch processes. Once the gum base is blended with sugars and syrups, minute amounts of flavorings are blended into the mixture. Through Late Stage Differentiation, Infini-MixTM has developed ways to inject the flavors at the end of the process.
Flavors like peppermint and spearment can be very strong and take hours to remove from a vessel. Utilizing the Infini-MixTM “S” Series mixer, the sweetened gum base can be blended with the various flavorings at the end of the process, prior to the rolling. This allows manufacturers to greatly reduce time when blending the flavoring in batches and CIP in-between recipe changes.
Coloring for Gumballs
Gumballs can literally be “a dime a dozen.” The colored coating and small amounts of flavoring are the only things that differ between the blue and the red and the yellow and every other color.
The gumball base coating can be blended with the coloring and flavoring at the end of the process instead of in a batch process. Using the Infini-MixTM “S” Series mixer to blend the final differentiating ingredient(s) at the end of the process allows for quicker flavor and coloring changes. This also shows a tremendous payback on cleaning chemicals when you are only cleaning the mixer instead of the entire process.
