潜水简介:
- Hershey正在寻求使用一种使用烤谷物面粉（由米，小麦，燕麦，玉米，高粱或小米制成）的方法的专利，可以代替牛奶巧克力的无乳制品替代品中的牛奶蛋白。宾夕法尼亚州巧克力公司于5月1日提交了申请。首先由食物导航员报道。
- 在专利申请中，该公司表示，大多数现有的无乳制品巧克力都使用源自坚果和油籽的固体。该应用程序说，尽管这些能够制作糖果，但它们往往会更加蜡质和耐嚼性，并具有更高的熔点。专利应用程序说，其他使用谷物代替巧克力中乳制品的方法也对巧克力产生了负面影响。
- Many chocolate makers — butHershey in particular— are doubling down on finding ways to make the confection so that it’s allergen-free and has fewer ingredients that negatively impact health. Hershey has alreadytested a dairy-free chocolate bar with its Oat Made, available at some U.S. retailers through this month.
潜水见解：
创建更容易获得和不健康的巧克力一直是大多数糖果人都在应对的巨大挑战。很难找到合适的成分和过程来制作一种充分模仿味道，质地和口感的牛奶巧克力的糖果。
This new method from Hershey is another potential solution to the issue. Instead of taking extracts and oils from nuts or other plants or making ingredient swaps of grain powders for milk powder, Hershey is planning to take specially milled flour and roast it before incorporating it into the candy. Roasting the grain flour, the patent application states, can produce a texture, mouthfeel and taste more similar to typical milk chocolate. The chocolate that comes from this mix can also readily be processed for a variety of uses.
The patent states that the roasting process is a dry heat treatment that could cause a measurable change to the grain flour’s color, flavor and moisture content. And once the grains are roasted, they can be combined with other common ingredients to make chocolate through common processes.
Plant-based chocolate is a huge emerging area, and there’s a lot of room for improvement. While six in 10 consumers ages 18 to 44 expect each food brand to have plant-based options, only 45% of them are satisfied with current plant-based chocolate offerings, according to a2021年11月由巧克力成分巨头Barry Callebaut进行的调查。
根据植物性社区，基于植物的巧克力Abillion的说法represents 40% of the world’s vegan confectionery市场，目前价值10亿美元。还有很多生长空间。食品人工智能公司Spoonshot仅说所有巧克力和软糖产品的5.6％in the U.S., U.K. and Australia carry vegan label claims.
Hershey, which released its first plant-based chocolate bar last year with the test of Oat Made,通常收到很高的分数在消费者评论中。目前尚不清楚燕麦是否将成为好时代的产品组合的永久补充。通过发言人，好时拒绝透露燕麦是否制作了该公司现在正在尝试专利的过程。
Regardless, given thedecidedly混合对火星和雀巢制作的无乳巧克力的评论，显然需要更多的创新来创建一种甜点，消费者将与牛奶巧克力一样容易选择。高端巧克力制造商林德（Lindt赢得了创新的新产品奖在2022年的糖果和小吃博览会上。制造商包括Mondelēz的胡和craft chocolatier Tcho。
Unlike more premium confections currently available, any successful dairy-free Hershey chocolate will have the advantage of being considered an everyday treat. It makes sense for the company to devote significant R&D toward finding the best way to make it, then make sure its intellectual property is protected.
