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Chunks and Granulate
Bites, Mince and Flakes
Bites, Mince and Flakes
Hydration of Textured Vegetable Protein-TVP
Our TVP-products are available as dry products that needs hydration.
You can soak the dry products in cold water containing 1% of salt. The product should be drained, when complete hydration is obtained.
Watch this video on how to hydrate.
If you want to use the TVP-products in a sauce, you can reduce the hydrating time, but then you must add more liquid to the sauce – around 2½ x the volume of the TVP-products.
Ex: 1 dl Bites need 2,5dl liquid.
Recommended hydration time can be seen in this table:
| Product | Hydration time/min |
|---|---|
|
Granulate |
10 5 15 15 10 30 30 |
To minimize hydration times of Chunks, Bites and Flakes, hydration can be carried out over-night at refrigerated temperature.
The dry TVP-products are light in colour and neutral in taste, which makes them versatile and easy to flavour and colour during the soaking dependent on the application.