Consumers now expect fresh fruit and vegetable produce throughout the year. MAP has the potential to extend the safe shelf life of many fruits and vegetables. Packaging fresh and unprocessed fruits and vegetables poses many challenges for packaging technologists. As…
MAP has the potential to increase the shelf life of a number of dairy products. These include fat-filled milk powders, cheeses and fat spreads. In general, these products spoil due to the development of oxidative rancidity in the case of…
Vacuum packaging or vacuum sealing is a form of packaging that involves the removal of air from a pouch or plastic container. Vacuum packaging with an extremely high gas barrier packaging materials has the purpose of food preservation. How Does…
Potato popularly known as ‘The king of vegetables’, It finds bulk usage in savory & snack food industry for the production of chips, fries, and extruded snacks. Frozen French fries and chips share the fresh potatoes consumption of around 30%…
Anonymous What is vacuum packaging? Vacuum packaging is removing air from the product pouch and hermetically sealing it. This increases storage or shelf life by inhibiting the growth of microorganisms and improves hygiene by reducing the danger of cross contamination.…
The various seed quality related findings of researchers have been suggested that vacuum packaging is better over conventional packaging and extending the storability & quality of same are listed in the following SL.No/ Researchers Crops Seed Quality Parameters 01 Pandiarajan…
Frying is one of the oldest and cooking methods in existence where an edible fat heated above the boiling of water serves as the heat transfer medium. Deep fat fried products, like potato chips, French fries, doughnuts, extruded snacks, fish…
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fryer] A vacuum fryer is a deep-frying device housed inside a vacuum chamber. It was originally developed for potato chip production. Vacuum fryers are fit to process low-quality potatoes that contain higher sugar levels than normal, as they frequently have…
The vacuum frying technology allows offering consumers a healthier and delicious product. Fruits and vegetables fried in a vacuum fryer are turned into healthy snacks that are rapidly gaining in popularity and becoming an alternative to traditional chips. The low pressure at…
Thermoforming is a process of shaping flat thermoplastic sheet which includes two stages: softening the sheet by heating, followed by forming it in the mold cavity. Thermoforming is widely used in the food packaging industry for manufacturing ice cream and…