Liquid smoke
Smoke techniques have been used for ages, first to preserve meat then for colour and taste. Liquid smoke provides the same benefits as traditional smoking, but offers important environmental and health advantages. Besides that it simplifies your production process and gives you better control over the results.
Liquid smoke is based on pure, natural raw materials like hickory and oakwood. The wood is pyrolysed and then the smoke cloud is condensed in order to obtain a smoke with the required composition. All potentially harmful smoke gases and solid elements like PAH's, tar and char are removed during processing. These undesired components are recycled as fuel back into the process, eliminating them as pollutants. The primary smoke is then further processed into many different functional products for various applications. Liquid smoke acts both as a natural antioxidant and as an antimicrobial component to help preserve foods and prolong shelf life by retarding fat rancidity and bacterial growth. The product creates flavor and color that adds no calories or fat to foods.
All Zesti®Smoke product comply with the European Regulation on smoke flavours.
The wide range of benefits of liquid smoke and smoke powders compared to traditional smoking include:
Environmental benefits in the production of liquid smoke
• Pollution emissions are eliminated by filtering smoke before emission
• All wastes (like tar) are recycled as fuel back into the smoke process
• Forest conservation by using sawdust which is a by-product from saw mills
Health benefits for the consumer
• Hazardous elements are eliminated during the filter process
• Increased food safety through the antibacterial properties of the smoke
• All raw materials are non-GMO and certified by the European legislation
Production benefits for you
• Reduce time and costs of maintenance and cleaning thanks to a cleaner production process
• Have a uniform, high quality smoking process by fully controlled production
• Increase capacity (time, labor and energy savings) by continuous production
• Less odor emissions
• Reduction of green house gases