Fruit, vegetables, spices
Raw materials from the field bring stones and soil with them. Frozen fruit and vegetables need gentle thawing, and freeze-drying opens the way to long-shelf-life products.
Typical challenges
Stones and soil
A metal detector cannot find stones in vegetables, nuts and spices.
Gentle thawing
Fruit and vegetables must keep their shape, colour and texture when thawed.
Shelf life without preservatives
Freeze-dried fruit and vegetables last long and keep their nutrients.
How we can help
Inspection of raw materials and finished products
BULK MIDMEKI inspects unpacked raw material in a stream; the other models inspect packed products.
X-rayTempering fruit and vegetables
Spinach (20 kg) in 7 minutes, diced tomatoes in 5 minutes, without losing shape or colour.
Microwave tempering Tempering payback calculatorFreeze-drying
Freeze-drying for fruit, vegetables and herbs, from 200 kg of raw material per cycle.
From practice
Nuts and dried fruit: X-ray and checkweigher at the end of the line
A nut and dried-fruit packer produces tens of thousands of tonnes a year. At the end of the line every bag is scanned by a Mekitec X-ray system and checked by a checkweigher, even at 220 packs a minute.
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Raspberries for fruit ice cream: 6 minutes instead of two days
A leading Czech food manufacturer thawed fruit for ice cream in a thawing room for 24 to 48 hours. The fruit was soft on the surface and frozen inside. A NutriTemp Batch unit now tempers it in 6 minutes with no weight loss.
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X-ray or metal detector? What pays off at the end of the line
A metal detector is cheaper but only finds metal. X-ray also detects glass, stone and bone, sees through metal packaging and stores an image of every piece. A comparison of the two and when X-ray pays off.
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Solutions for fruit, vegetables, spices
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