Chocolate Moisture
Moisture Sensor Capabilities
Roasting, grinding, mixing/refining, conching, tempering—maintaining the correct moisture and temperature levels is critical during the various stages of chocolate processing. To achieve the desired flavor, color, and flow properties of your chocolate, carefully measuring levels at each stage is a must. Are you currently measuring chocolate moisture? MoistTech has more than one solution for you!
Quality is a key driving factor in the cocoa and chocolate processing industry, not just for satisfying consumers, but also as a payment criterion for cocoa suppliers. With the help of technologies from MoistTech, manufacturers can take greater control over cocoa and chocolate quality parameters to verify recipes and ensure a consistent final product.
NIR analysis of cocoa and chocolate provides a rapid, non-destructive, & accurate method for assessing quality, allowing manufacturers to make informed decisions and improve their quality control processes. NIR can provide valuable information about moisture and fat, which are important factors for determining quality.
Side by Side Comparison
Cocoa
Easily analyze products such as Cocoa Beans, Cocoa Nibs, Cocoa Powder, and Cocoa Butter. Monitoring the incoming ingredients, the cocoa bean processing, chocolate making and the final product before packaging allows manufacturers to provide the best quality around. Brand protection is achieved with quality, consistency, and taste – moisture directly affects all three!
Other chocolate moisture sensor instruments may yield variable results, but not the IR-3000—it generates consistent, accurate results, even in the harshest environments. At MoistTech, we understand the importance of testing and regulating moisture and other vital levels in chocolate production. We also know how important it is to cut costs without compromising on quality. The IR-3000 is low cost, energy efficient, and reduces start-up and downtime. It also eliminates waste due to incorrect chocolate moisture levels.
non-contact
Our equipment never comes into contact with the product, allowing for less waste
zero drift
Our sensors are guaranteed not to drift over time – which saves time and money
closed loop
Create a closed-loop process by tying a moisture sensor into your PLC. Full control over the line!
no recalibrations
We’ve mastered the art of moisture sensors – your unit will never need to be recalibrated for the same product twice!
Semi-Liquid Product Options
MoistTech’s Food Grade Sanitary Valve Connection allows for the instant measurement of moisture through a
pipeline for applications such as condiments, chocolate, soft cheese, sauces and more. This provides users with a
non-destructive way to have instant moisture measurements directly on the production line without time
consuming traditional laboratory methods. The Food Grade Sanitary Valve Connection is designed to be adapted
to the process pipeline conveyed material, allowing the material to flow directly against the NIR detector without
wasting or contaminating the product.
The sanitary valve connection may be the best soultion for your application depending on the consistency of your product. Learn more here
What is the Solution?
Accurate moisture testing instruments optimize production—helping yield the highest quality products AND save money along the way. But it’s difficult to choose the best moisture analyzer when so many options are available on the market – MoistTech has the diamond standard in solutions!
In addition to taking accurate measurements of moisture (in % dry and % wet), the IR-3000 can measure temperature, sugar, caffeine, oil/fat, and more.
Assess
Locate the point in the production process in which measuring moisture will be the most crucial and beneficial. Identify how you will use the moisture measurement data for improvements and if it will tie into your PLC.
Remember this could involve more than one installation point!
Contact
We offer service and support throughout the world for our moisture measurement sensors and would be happy to connect you with a rep in your area. Contact us today for more information!
Understand the Process
MoistTech has thousands of installations in a wide variety of food products, from slurries to powders. While moisture is our major focus, we also supply analyzers for the continuous online measurement of protein, fat/oil, sugar, caffeine and other constituents/elements that absorb the NIR beam.