Regular consumers of this liquid food can be happy after hearing this news. Because with the new technology LIQUAM for healthier honey you can enjoy it with all its organoleptic properties and nutritional quality. The Catalan company Sonicat-Systems has created a novel system. It uses ultrasound to prevent the product from crystallizing and remaining fluid. This has always been achieved with a heat treatment that reduces the numerous benefits of honey. Something that does not happen in this technique that could be revolutionary.
How is LIQUAM for a healthier honey?
The idea that two entrepreneurs from the Catalan company based in Cornellá It arose from the problem of heat treating honey. This is necessary and essential so that it remains for months in fluid state, without the formation of crystals. These are derived from high sugar content (70%), the remainder being water. If the heat treatment that lasts only two minutes and which heats up to about 80 degrees Celsius were not applied, the packaging of the product would be unthinkable. This is because it would pass from the liquid to the solid, forming a mazacote difficult to consume.
However, the drawback is that the honey loses quality, because with the heating its content of enzymes, vitamins and other compounds is reduced. Therefore, its benefits decrease, something that has motivated the interesting research of Sonicat-System. The goal was to find an improved technique to avoid that negative aspect. This is how it was born LIQUAM for a healthier honey.
It basically consists of applying high power ultrasound which liquefies the raw material extracted from the combs without exceeding 55ºC. In this way, the concentration of sugar crystals is reduced to a level comparable to traditional pasteurization. But always preserving the quality of honey raw, a novelty that could be revolutionary. Several European companies have already been interested in LIQUAM for a healthier honey. They have worked for eight years to develop this technique. Minimize food processing to the maximum.
European grant
LIQUAM has also been selected among thousands of startups technologies to receive a grant of two million euros from the European Commission. This, within the framework of the project Horizon 2020. Until now, the Catalan company only has one functional prototype that has been tested in a beekeeping facility in Valencia. The results obtained have been so good that they are already thinking big. After presenting your idea of R+D to CE, they hope to be able to manufacture a machine with which to process up to 300 tons of honey a year.
LIQUAM for healthier honey it will be positive from the packaging to the consumer, acknowledge those responsible. Of course, we will have to wait to see all this in the supermarket product.
