The Food Research Lab mimics commercial food and beverage giants and formulates food, snacks, flavoured beverages, chews, gummies, etc. “You name it, we make it.”

Today’s Task

What We did Today?

Plant Based Chews

Event: Today, I had a plan to work on plant-based Fruit Chews

How I felt it (initial before executing the actual task): I always love to handle any project that comes with product formulation with innovation.

Actual Task: Product formulation

What did I learn?

Plant based soft chews is a blend of ingredients such as tapioca syrup, fruit and vegetable blends, along with low calorie sweeteners such as erythritol, stevia and emulsifier. The fruit and vegetable blend serves nutrients vitamins and minerals from carrot, beetroot, pumpkin, sweet potato, and squash. Creating a soft chew candy requires immense concentration and focus on 3 things time, temperature and consistency. All 3 things play an important role in all confectionery products. This product of plant based soft chews has some critical points such as time and temperature at the time of syrup cooking, which will directly have an impact on hardening of the final product. If the syrup is cooked for less time, it will lead to a final product of soft and shapeless. Other important factors are flavor and color. Sunflower lecithin which acts as a emulsifier and thickener. After collecting all ingredients, the syrup has to be cooked and then all other ingredients should be mixed and poured into Moulds. This product is flavored with strawberry and It needs to be stored in ambient temperature.