As a baking quality analyser, C-Cell is an objective method used within the baking industry to assess product quality and structure..  

But who uses C-Cell, and what benefits can it offer them specifically?  

Baking Quality Analysis for the Bakery Industry 

In its entirety, the global bakery industry is highly diverse, with various producers focusing on different areas of specialisation, at different stages in the food supply chain and production cycle.  

What are the different types of baked goods and food producers who use C-Cell?  

They include:  

  • Commercial and industrial bakeries 

  • Flour millers 

  • Ingredients producers 

  • Bakery equipment manufacturers 

  • Plant breeders 

  • Extruded and aerated food producers

  • Research & development   

For commercial bakeries, benchmarking products is essential for maintaining consistency and monitoring the quality of ingredients and output. C-Cell is the perfect tool for benchmarking, feeding back results to production teams and identifying variations in product quality.  

Flour millers use C-Cell when test baking as part of their quality control and quality assurance processes.  

C-Cell data provides evidence of consistency of flour supply something the baker requires.  

Producers of baking ingredients and improvers can optimise their products by monitoring and measuring performance with C-Cell’s parameters.  

Bakery equipment is as important to the baking process as baking ingredients. C-Cell can validate the performance of bakery equipment at all stages of production.  

In the fields of research and plant breeding, C-Cell’s comprehensive data output provides unique and detailed information about critical aspects such as texture, size, shape and colour of end-products.  

You can also use C-Cell with other types of food products, including chocolate and snack foods that have aerated internal structures.  

How Hard is it to Use C-Cell?  

Even though C-Cell has a range of specialised, industry-specific applications (see above), its sophisticated technology is very user-friendly.  

Essentially, C-Cell is an advanced image-capture and data analysis tool in one. Operating it is easy:  

  • You place your sample in C-Cell’s built-in drawer  

  • Once you close the drawer, C-Cell will capture a digital, high-resolution image of the sample and perform a detailed analysis of it  

  • You can then look at the results of this analysis on a display screen.  

The data is clear, objective and straightforward to analyse. It includes information about:  

  • Cells 

  • Dimensions 

  • Features 

  • Crumb and structure.  

C-Cell stores its analytical information on a secure database and provides user options for displaying it in different ways.  

It also offers optional formats for data display, including Excel and CSV.  

Do You Need Baking Expertise to Use C-Cell? 

C-Cell is easy to use and can be incorporated into the bakery quality control environment, Results are available within 30 seconds and reports are definable as to the users specific requirements, whatever the type and style of product being produced.    

With over 60 different parameters measured on each slice the user can focus on a specific process and benchmark parameters that require improvement. 

C-Cell can measure to a much higher level of precision than can be seen with subjective assessment, especially when small adjustments are made to formulation or process settings where the resultant changes in quality are small and not easily quantified with the naked eye.  

For more information about C-Cell's uses and capabilities, please contact us.