Dates turning sour in vegan nutrition bars

Hello I am developing a range of vegan nutrition bars and I am using 100% natural dates paste as sweetener. Other ingredients I am using are nut butter, pea pr…

1. Ufuk Ayyıldız reply

   Does your date paste sterilized?

2. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   Looks like your bars had high Aw...Looks like there is no heat or very minimal. treatment there. whats tge internal temperatureof your bar during processing. .. How did you proces…

3. Amit Chopraa reply

   i have purchased it in bulk pack from reseller, its coming from UAE

4. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   You buy the dates but not the bars..explain how you make the bars.

5. Amit Chopraa reply

   whats Aw? there is no heat treatment involved. Havent measured the temperature. I simply packed it after making it into bars. Yes we followed GMP and food safety protocols. We san…

6. Ufuk Ayyıldız reply

   What is your profession? It seems you need a consulting service.

7. Food R&D Emeritus reply

   Your dates paste contains osmotolerant yeasts ..spores thats the likelt cause of the spoilage. Aw is water activity..

8. Amit Chopraa reply

   Yesterday we did another trial and this time we have used date syrup instead of date paste. I will ask my qc guy to check for water activity.