Beverage powder

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Powdered drinks are sugar confectionery that, when added to water, milk or other liquids, result in a ready-to-eat but non-effervescent drink.

Beverage powders are usually made from sugar and / or sweeteners and, depending on the type of beverage, contain: cocoa powder (also heavily de-oiled), chocolate powder , malt extract , fruit powder (or other flavoring ingredients), dried milk products and flavors, vitamins, minerals, edible acids and their salts, coloring Food and dyes, thickeners and opacifiers, emulsifiers and substances that improve flowability. The designation of the flavor is given by information such as "Beverage powder with raspberry flavor", "Beverage powder type raspberry", " Instant powder for making a beverage with ... taste" or "Beverage powder containing cocoa". Most popular are containing cocoa beverage powder with milk or water a cocoa drink arise.

Distinction

To cocoa powder

Beverage powders containing cocoa are easily soluble instant products that contain up to 80% sugar and can be vitaminized; they only have to contain 5% cocoa. Therefore, they do not legally belong to cocoa products , but to sugar confectionery .

Cocoa powder or cocoa powder mixtures with a high proportion of cocoa count among the cocoa and chocolate products . The German regulation on cocoa and chocolate products distinguishes between:

  • Unsweetened cocoa powder:
    1. Cocoa ( cocoa powder ), only slightly de-oiled and with at least 20% cocoa butter
    2. Low-fat cocoa (also: low-fat cocoa powder , "lean" or "heavily defoiled") contains less than 20% cocoa butter.
  • Sweetened cocoa powder:
    1. Chocolate powder is a mixture of at least 32% cocoa powder and types of sugar
    2. Drinking chocolate powder, a product made from at least 25% cocoa powder and sugars.

Of finished cocoa drink , however, is, according to Silo to the flavored milk .

With lemonade and fizzy powder

  • Lemonade powder are sugar products for the production of fizzy soft drinks, which consist of powdered ingredients such as types of sugar and / or sugar alcohols, edible acids, natural flavoring substances (fruit powder, lactoflavin, beta-carotene and caramel) and hydrogen carbonate . The acid is usually encapsulated in order to delay a reaction between the hydrogen carbonate and the acid.
  • Effervescent powders are sugar products that contain flavors and colors . They are also offered in tablet form.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BLL - Guideline for Sugar Confectionery (2017). Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Gesine Schulze Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety: Food: Cocoa. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ EUR-Lex - 32000L0036 - Directive 2000/36 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 23, 2000 on cocoa and chocolate products for human consumption. Retrieved October 23, 2018 (English, German).