A system for production of liquid food (P) comprises a food processing arrangement (2) and a computer device (3), e.g. a PLC. The computer device (3) sequentially executes a control program (5A) to control the food processing arrangement (2) to perform processing steps for producing the liquid food (P) from one or more ingredients in accordance with a predefined recipe. The program comprises command instructions that each allocates a respective processing step to a predefined control command among a predefined set. To enable parallelism, despite the sequential execution by the computer device (3), the set of control commands comprises a start command which is associated, by the computer device (3), with an action of: starting the food processing step that is allocated to the start command and proceeding, without waiting for the food processing step to be completed, to a subsequent instruction in the list of instructions.

A system for production of liquid food (P) comprises a food processing arrangement (2) and a computer device (3), e.g. a PLC. The computer device (3) sequentially executes a control program (5A) to control the food processing arrangement (2) to perform processing steps for producing the liquid food (P) from one or more ingredients in accordance with a predefined recipe. The program comprises command instructions that each allocates a respective processing step to a predefined control command among a predefined set. To enable parallelism, despite the sequential execution by the computer device (3), the set of control commands comprises a start command which is associated, by the computer device (3), with an action of: starting the food processing step that is allocated to the start command and proceeding, without waiting for the food processing step to be completed, to a subsequent instruction in the list of instructions.

The present invention relates to an oven comprising: —a first chamber and a second chambers, which are separated by separation means—conveyor means for guiding products from the inlet through these chambers to the outlet, —temperature control means for controlling the temperature and/or humidity in each chamber individually using a fluid, respectively, and—a passage in the separation means through which the conveyor means are directed from the first chamber to the second chamber.

An apparatus for cooling a food item may include a base and a top, the top and the base defining an interior chamber configured to receive the food item, and a fan coupled to the top and configurable in an operating mode and an off mode, wherein the fan moves air within the interior chamber when in the operating mode. The apparatus may include a temperature sensor to measure a temperature of the food item within the interior chamber and provide a temperature signal representative of that temperature, at least one user input allowing a user to select a cooling parameter, and a control unit adapted to receive the temperature signal and the cooling parameter, wherein the control unit is configured to switch the fan from the operating mode to the off mode when the cooling parameter has been met.

Disclosed is a cheese powder, methods for manufacturing the cheese powder, and a cheese-based food product made therefrom. The method includes: providing an aromatic matrix resulting from culturing a flavoring microorganism in a culture medium, and a texture matrix, at least some of the proteins of which consist of coagulating proteins which have not been subjected to prior coagulation; optionally mixing the aromatic matrix and the texture matrix to obtain a matrix mixture; and drying the matrices or the mixture of matrices to obtain a powder consistency, when the matrices or the mixture of matrices has a consistency ranging from liquid to paste. The obtained cheese powder has the following features: a total dry extract greater than or equal to 95% m/m, a water activity (aw) having a value of 0.1 to 0.25, and the coagulating proteins derived from the texture matrix have not been subjected to prior coagulation.

A solid food is a solid food having a solid form obtained by compression molding a powder, in which in a case where a drop test in which the solid food is dropped onto a drop face is repeated until the solid food is broken, the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when a dropping energy density per unit fracture stress EF is 2×10.sup.−4 [(J/m.sup.2)/(N/m.sup.2)] is 3 times or more, the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when EF is 1×10.sup.−4 [(J/m.sup.2)/(N/m.sup.2)] is 10 times or more, and the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when EF is 5×10.sup.−5 [(J/m.sup.2)/(N/m.sup.2)] is more than 30 times, EF being obtained by dividing a dropping energy density in the drop test by a fracture stress of the solid food.

A cooking assistance method executed by a computer includes: (a) causing an output device to output information of a first cooking process in which a first ingredient is cut or applied with a pressure; (b) obtaining, when the first ingredient is cut on a cooking board or applied with the pressure on the cooking board in the first cooking process, at least one of a pressure on the cooking board, a total number of cuts made to the first ingredient, and a state of the first ingredient cut; (c) changing a description of a second cooking process performed subsequently to the first cooking process, using information based on the at least one of the pressure, the total number of cuts, and the state of the first ingredient cut; and (d) causing the output device to output information of the second cooking process changed.

Various ingredients and compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant. The compositions can be used as bulking agents, and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Various ingredients and compositions are prepared from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plant. The compositions can be used as bulking agents, and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

An autonomous robotic vehicle includes a conveyance system, a securable compartment configured to autonomously lock and unlock, a customer identification reader, at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the autonomous robotic vehicle to, autonomously: travel to a destination location of a customer; capture, by the customer identification reader at the destination location, a customer identification object; determine that the captured customer identification object matches an identity of the customer; unlock the securable compartment based on the determination; capture, by the product identification reader, a product identifier; and accept a product to be returned by locking the securable compartment. The securable compartment contains a product identification reader.