PEX-Products:

The future and growing potential of PEX-products (Product EXpanding) produced with the "PEX" and "INVAP" process are within the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) due to their superior properties in the food market.

The PEX-products offer access to a variety of business fields. In the consumer relevant properties like texture, taste and color the PEX-products clearly surpass the “freeze-dried”- products.
Therefore PEX-products are in growing demand for cereals, baby-food, sweets, milk-products (ice cream, yoghurt, etc.) as well as ingredients for. e.g. instant-soups, teas. There is also a general demand in the “health-food-industry”.

The flexibility of the “PEX / INVAP“- technology, the quality of the end product and the economical production open up wide and in many cases entirely new fields of application:

• The puffed products with their natural form and color suit well for direct consumption and also the cereal-industry and as ingredients for sweets and yoghurts. The high stability and firmness of the final product allow for grinding of the product to granulate with instant-product character, which can be used as ingredients for the formulas in the baking and sweets industry, as well as defining feature the health-food industry (color, taste, aroma) in fruit teas and in power bars.
• The reduced density by puffing (big form factor, small weight), the natural color and taste remind the consumer of the fresh product in dried as well as rehydrated form.
• Substitution and displacement of freeze-dried products by cost advantage at partly better quality concerning color, aroma or texture.
• Excellent rehydration properties predestine PEX-vegetables for “one- minute soups”
• Dried fruit, especially tropical fruit, are in the form factor of slices, dice, or sticks extremely popular as healthy snacks for in between.