Revista de Nutrición y Dietética

Abstracto

Industrial Development for Mass Production of A Dietary Supplement Obtained by Topspray Continuous Fluid Bed Agglomeration

Daniel Laguado and Jorge Andres Sarmiento

This work describes the industrial development of a new dietary supplement based on the needs of the Colombian people. Actually, in Colombia, some dietary supplements comes in granules traditionally produced by extrusion; this production process leads to product degradation specially in the vitamin content due to high temperatures and high shear. To solve this issue producers overdose the ingredients to overcome the loss generated due to processing conditions that at the end increases the product cost. Therefore, Quala S.A. proposed a top-spray production technology for continuous fluid bed agglomeration, which allows using lower temperatures with lower shear rates for the granulation leading to less impact on the stability of the vitamins and other components as flavors. The variables of greatest relevance in the production of the multivitamin granules were also studied in order to obtain the main characteristics that are useful for the product consumption. As far as we know, this is an innovative technology for the production of dietary supplements and provides good results not only for Quala S.A. but also for the national industry.