Fruit and vegetable powder is made by processing fresh fruits and vegetables through advanced freeze-drying technology and equipment, pretreatment, quick freezing, vacuum drying, ultraviolet sterilization, packaging and storage.
With the continuous innovation of production and processing technology, dried fruit and vegetable products not only use natural air drying and hot air drying, but also low-temperature freeze drying and microwave drying, which have become the methods selected by production enterprises.
It has low water content and can be stored for a long time, reducing the cost of storage, transportation, packaging and other costs.
Moreover, studies have shown that fruits and vegetables can be applied to almost all areas of food processing, and can be used to improve the nutritional content of products and improve the color and flavor of products.
When fresh fruits and vegetables are processed into fruit and vegetable powder, the moisture content is less than 6%, which reduces the probability of decay, and its low moisture content reaches the level that microorganisms cannot use, and the activity of the enzymes contained is also inhibited, which can greatly reduce the cost of storage, transportation, packaging and other aspects.
Fruit and vegetable powder making does not have high requirements on raw materials, especially the edible skin and core can be used, which broadens the application range of fruit and vegetable raw materials.
Fruit and vegetable powder is easy to store and eat, has strong adjustability and rich nutrition. It maintains the original nutritional flavor of fruits and vegetables and the nutritional components of fruit and vegetable skins and cores without any additives and pigments. It has been used as an ingredient to process other foods and has become a good nutritional deep-processed product.
What is the use of fruit and vegetable powder?
For example, it can be used for:
Noodle products, such as carrot powder and spinach powder can be added to noodles.
Puffed food, such as tomato powder as a seasoning for puffed food.
Meat products, such as adding vegetable powder to ham sausage.
Dairy products, such as adding various fruit and vegetable powders to dairy products.
Candy products, adding fruit powders of different flavors during the processing of candy.
Baked products, such as adding hericium erinaceus powder, tomato powder, etc. in biscuit processing.
Beverage products, fruit powder can be made into fruit wine and fruit vinegar through fermentation, blending and filtration.
Therefore, the processing of fruit and vegetable powder tends to develop in the direction of ultra-fine grinding. After the fruits and vegetables are dried and then ultra-finely crushed, the particle size can reach the micron level. Due to the ultra-fine particles, the surface area and small size effect will have great changes in their physical and chemical properties. The ultra-fine grinding technology of food is a new means of food processing industry, which will bring great impetus to the improvement of traditional processes and the development of new products.
After micronization, food has strong surface adsorption and affinity, so it has good solid flavor, dispersibility and solubility, which is conducive to absorption and digestion. After the fruits and vegetables are dried and then ultra-finely crushed, the particles can reach the micron level.
