| ≥1 piece |
Sweet pineapple sauce can be prepared by cooking fruit puree pineapple
Sweet pineapple sauce can be prepared by cooking fruit puree pineapple, salt, sugar and blend it with water until boiled.
To ensure high quality sauce, material selections need to be emphasized. Pineapple fruit need to be fresh and ripe. Sauce should be cooked to eradicate microorganism inside raw material. Cookings time and temperature has to followed to seek colour, concentration, quality and sauce stability. Long heat processing would result in darker sauce.
During mixing, gum has to be mixed first with sugar. Fine gum powder was not easy to melt in fruit mixture. Mix gum with sugar and put in inside the fruit mixture and stir.
Citric Acid used to reduce sauces pH until it become less than 4.5. This would be vital because Preservative used, namely Natrium Benzoat have maximum effect in pH 4.5 and below only.
Sauce is filled into the bottle when it is still hot. The function is to reduce microorganism pollution and produce partial vacuum in bottles mouth so that colour change in bottles neck could be reduced.
| Sweet Pineapple Sauce Formulation | |
| Ingredients | Quantity (g) |
| Pineapple Puree | 300 |
| Margarine | 45 |
| Sugar | 330 |
| Salt | 7 |
| Food Starch | 17.6 |
| Xantham Gum | 0.4 |
| Citric Acid | 7 |
| Water | 292.5 Litres |
| Sodium Benzoat | 0.42 gm (based on total weight of the above) |
| Product Type: Sauce | Form: Powder | Packaging: Vacuum Pack |