Sophora viciifolia hance soft candy and preparation method thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses a soft candy prepared by using bitter thorn flower as a main material, cane sugar and glucose syrup as sweetening agents, citric acid or sodium citrate as a color fixative, beta-cyclodextrin as an aroma protective agent and pectin as an excipient; the bitter thorn flower is subjected to cleaning, blanching, soaking, microwave heating, water addition, pulping and filtration, is added with the citric acid or the sodium citrate and the beta-cyclodextrin for color and aroma protection, and the mixture is subjected to low-temperature vacuum condensation under the conditionsof the certain temperature and the certain pressure to prepare extracting liquid; the cane sugar is dissolved and filtered in hot water and added with the glucose syrup and added with the pectin and the bitter thorn flower at the certain temperature to condense to obtain extracting juice; and the extracting juice is subjected to even stirring, cooling, defoaming, mold casting and low-temperature drying to prepare the soft candy. The product enlarges the utilization range of birchleaf pear flower and increases the use value thereof. As the bitter thorn flower has no pollution, the product is green food. The prepared soft candy has aroma and taste of the bitter thorn flower, is lustrous in color, transparent in the soft candy body, fine in tissue, aromatic, sweet, delicious and soft and haselasticity, thereby achieving excellent color, aroma and taste.

Description

Technical field: [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of confectionary food and its processing, in particular to a bitter thorn flower jelly candy and a preparation method thereof. Background technique: [0002] The scientific name of bitter thorn flower is bitter thorn (Sophora davidii Rom ex Pavol), also known as white thorn flower, wolf tooth thorn, iron horse hushao. It grows in the sand dunes of river valleys and the shrubs on the roadside of hillsides, and is distributed in central, southern and western Yunnan. The crude protein content of bitter thorn flowers is 20.79%. It has a complete range of amino acids, and contains VB1, VB2, niacin, VC, carotene and other vitamins. It is rich in mineral elements and contains appropriate amounts of cellulose, carbohydrates, acids and fruits Glue and other nutritional components; therefore, the bitter thorn flower has a complete range of nutritional components, rich in content, and has high nutritional value. It ...

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Problems solved by technology

Although the edible and medicinal value of the bitter thorn flower has long been confirmed by the people, the utilization rate of the bitter thorn flower is very low at present. Usually only a small amount of flowers are used for cooking during the flowering period, and once the flowers are not fresh, they are discarded. If it is not used, this precious wild edible flower resource is wasted in large quantities

So far, there is no report on bitter thorn flower jelly candy and its preparation method in the existing literature