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Granola Bars

Granola Bars
Mixer & Live Bottom Bin

Dry ingredients are blended with oil and sugar to form a mass. The Live Bottom Bin then provides a metered feed to a feeder / spreader unit via an elevating conveyor.

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Feeder / Spreader

Comprises a hopper and two contra-rotating feed rolls to create a loose sheet of constant thickness that is laid onto the oven band.

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Compression Roll

Provides a final consolidation and gauging of the sheet before the oven.

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TruBake™ Convection Oven

Removes moisture from the product and causes the sugar to melt.

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Cooling Section

Binds the mass together to give the characteristic baked granola crunch.

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Baker Perkins offers complete lines for the production of high quality baked granola bars. 

The dry ingredients are mainly oats, although other grains or dried fruits are often added. The process involves mixing, forming and baking of a continuous sheet that is slit and guillotined into bars

Quality with efficiency

Crunchy granola is made by baking and cooling a loosely compacted sheet of dry ingredients, oil and sugar   . The heat transfer process removes moisture from the product and causes the sugar to melt – gentle handling and accurate heat transfer achieve the ideal balance between product quality and efficient production.

Colour and texture

These qualities are established by the combination of temperature and time chosen. Assisted cooling at the oven discharge binds the mass together to give the characteristic granola crunch.   A slitter and guillotine after the cooling divides the sheet into individual bars, ready for the wrapping machines.

Baking is best

Baking rather than conventional drying of granola delivers better taste, appearance and texture, markedly improving consumer appeal. Baking is a slower, more thorough process: baking temperature is higher than drying, giving improved control over caramelisation of the sugars and leading to greater depth of flavour.

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    Baker Perkins Ltd – UK

    Manor Drive
    Paston Parkway
    Peterborough
    PE4 7AP

    Baker Perkins Inc – US

    3223 Kraft Ave. S.E
    Grand Rapids
    Michigan
    49512 2027