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🍯 Honey Pasteurization Heat-Treatment Lab

An interactive HTST heat-exchanger model showing how honey temperature and hold time trade off diastase activity, HMF formation, yeast kill and crystallization delay.

Chemistry & Materials3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D HTST heat-exchanger pipeline where honey, diastase enzymes and yeast spores flow through a heated coil — watch enzyme activity fall, HMF build up, and crystallization slow as you turn up the heat.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Diastase enzymes and yeast spores denature at different rates as heat exposure rises, while HMF accumulates irreversibly — the same trade-off real HTST pasteurization lines are tuned around.

🎮 How to Use

Set coil temperature and hold time, then compare the treated jar against a raw reference jar as crystals form at different rates over simulated time.

💡 Did You Know?

Codex Alimentarius sets a minimum diastase activity of 8 Schade units and a typical HMF ceiling of 40 mg/kg — push the sliders far enough and this lab will flag both thresholds.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive HTST heat-exchanger model showing how honey temperature and hold time trade off diastase activity, HMF formation, yeast kill and crystallization delay.

honeypasteurizationheat treatmentdiastaseHMFcrystallizationThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install