Lecithin-beating functionality Neutral taste Lecithin is well known for imparting off-flavours – an unwelcome effect that varies from batch to batch and from supplier to supplier. Palsgaard ® AMP 4455, however, is designed to be a taste-neutral product, enabling it to be used at high dosages in applications sensitive to off-flavours such as crumb chocolate with its low content of cocoa solids, white Avoid the “Thickening Effect” Today, most manufacturers use soy lecithin, sunflower lecithin or rapeseed lecithin as their chocolate emulsifiers. All can potentially cause a problem well-known to production managers throughout the chocolate industry, known at Palsgaard as the “Thickening Effect”. Occurring at dosages of around 0.4 to 0.5 percent, the Thickening Effect describes an increase in yield value that can slow down production and place both the quality and the cost-effectiveness of the final product at risk. In fact, many chocolate recipes may have been formulated with the Thickening Effect in mind, and lecithin has, therefore, dictated a natural barrier to product development. Palsgaard ® AMP 4455 doesn’t encounter this problem. Instead, manufacturers can dose up to 1 percent Palsgaard ® chocolate, or confectionary spreads. Viscosity Reducing Power (VRP) for improved batch-to-batch stability Production costs are also closely tied to your ability to achieve and maintain consistent product quality, producing batch after batch of your company’s top products and securing customer loyalty. Palsgaard has a unique approach to ensuring functional stability in chocolate: no Palsgaard® AMP 4455 emulsifier batch is supplied without undergoing extensive testing in chocolate. Called the VRP method, this ensures every batch meets the specified viscosity reductions to produce the same rheological results every time. Thanks to VRP, no unfavorable recipe adjustments are needed. AMP 4455 to achieve the desired viscosity reduction. And it’s this unique ability that opens the door to new, low-fat, lowcalorie and low-cost recipes. With Palsgaard ® AMP 4455, you now have a unique tool to explore the limits of cost reduction while maintaining the quality of your chocolate.
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