Installation of Preventase Enzyme in Cerelac varients- Cerelac Honey, Cerelac Apple Cherry and Cerelac Multi Grain 5 Fruit

Abstract

The acryl amide content in the cerelac variants – cerelac apple cherry, cerelac honey and cerelac multi grain 5 fruit came out to be out of the nestle norms that is 100 ppb. For us it is very important to reduce the acryl amide content as we are concerned with the baby food. So to minimize the levels of acryl amide in cerelac baby food we discussed to minimize the AA content in the three cerelac variants- cerelac apple cherry, cerelac honey and cerelac multi grain 5 fruit. Preventase enzyme, reduces acryl amide in food by up to 90%. The enzyme converts asparagines into aspartate , a naturally occurring amino acid, thus preventing the chemical reaction that usually forms acryl amide when carbohydrate-containing foods, for example bread, cake or cereals , are being heated.  So we decided to use preventase enzyme as a remedy to reduce the acryl amide in the cerelac baby food.Trials are being carried out by dosing preventase enzyme in the cerelac variants and the results came out to be positive  for the two out of three variants. For apple cherry and honey it proves a good solution but for the multi grain 5 fruit it was not fruitful at first trial. So for the cerelac multi grain 5 fruit another trial for more preventase dosing has decided (from 100 ppm to 200 ppm and 400 ppm along with a close check on the other dry ingredients used in this variant and the base powder and the other factors responsilble for the mechanism of the preventase enzyme such as Ph, temperature, TC, holding time. Results for the cerelac multi grain 5 fruit for the dosing 200 ppm and 400 ppm came out and results for the dry mix ingredients and base powder came out. It shows that there was more acryl amide in one of the dry mix ingredient- barley rice corn flakes. Finally it was decided to continue the dosing of the preventase enzyme as 200 ppm as it was not at all effecting. It is barley corn crunchy which is creating a problem in cerelac multi grain 5 fruit.