Dosing oil into vegetable trays at Lea Green Foods
26 August, 2011 byUK-based Lea Green Foods is using innovative peristaltic pump technology to dose oil into vegetable trays with both precision and cleanliness.
Heat and Control MasterTherm batch fryer
26 August, 2011 byHeat and Control’s MasterTherm batch fryer can produce 225 finished kg/h of batch fried potato chips of almost any style with high consistency.
Kronen Vortex sanitising waterflow system for fresh-cuts
26 August, 2011 byThe Kronen Vortex sanitising waterflow system claims germ reduction on fresh-cut products.
Heat and Control Universal Product Cooker
24 August, 2011 byHard bite-style potato chips get their desirable extra crunchy texture from the unique oil temperature profile produced by batch fryers. But the limitations of producing such chips in batches of only a few hundred kilograms per hour has previously required processors to install multiple batch fryers.
The global foodborne disease crisis
02 August, 2011Recently, a virulent strain of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli caused around 50 deaths and sickened more than 4000 across Europe, the majority in Germany. The source of the infections is believed to have been organic fenugreek sprouts grown from contaminated seeds. As a result of this deadly outbreak, new regulations, improved surveillance and disease prevention strategies, particularly pertaining to produce, will likely emerge throughout the world.
Key Technology Manta sorter with three-way sorting capability
30 June, 2011 byKey Technology has added three-way sorting capability to its Manta sorter. Featuring two ejector systems, three-way sorting allows food processors to automatically eject product that can be reworked and recovered separately from material sent to waste, typically foreign material. Good product continues through the camera/laser sorter unaffected as usual. This capability allows processors to produce a high-quality finished product without losing recoverable off-grade product to the waste stream or requiring additional sorting expense to separately rework product.
Improve potato strip quality and yield
06 January, 2011Turkish processor Konya Seker decided to try something different on its potato strip production line. Unlike other potato processors that use optical sorters to remove defects on their primary lines, Konya Seker relies on an ADR5 automatic defect removal system from Key Technology. This application, called the ADRFirst solution, maximises product quality and increases yields at Konya Seker.
Chemical residues in fresh produce
06 October, 2010 byResults from a New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) study looking at chemical residues in fresh, unwashed produce has found no health or food safety concerns.
Reduce water use while peeling fruit
06 October, 2010 byA recently developed system that uses air, rather than water, to blast peels off fruit could reduce water use by 80%.
Alfa Laval Y-series olive oil decanters
02 September, 2010 bySimple, yet innovative, Y-series olive oil decanters can transport and treat up to 360 tons of olive paste a day and at the same time provide a lower concentration of residual oil in the husk.
Kronen KUJ high-performance dicer
02 September, 2010 byThe Kronen KUJ high-performance dicer cuts strips from 2-20 mm and cubes from 3-20 mm precisely. It can process up to 3000 kg/h.
Leaf vegetable centrifuge with inclined belt
02 September, 2010 byVezet is one of the largest fruit and vegetable processing businesses in the Netherlands and leads the market in freshly sliced, ready-to-cook vegetables. The company has recently expanded its machinery park with three, large-type SC-940 centrifuges from Sormac and a smaller SC-740.
Kronen Tona S180K vegetable and fruit processing machine
06 July, 2010 byKronen has released the Tona S180K vegetable and fruit processing machine, a combination of the machines Tona E wedger and the Tona S slicer.
Consumers’ response to US spinach contamination
04 June, 2010 by Carlos Arnade, Linda Calvin and Fred Kuchler, Economic Research Service, US Department of AgricultureSpinach sales fell but expenditures for total leafy greens remained unchanged, following a US government warning to avoid bagged spinach because of possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination in 2006.
Kronen Vortex-line produce washer
03 March, 2010 byThe Kronen Vortex-line has been developed for the final treatment stage for vegetables, including leafy salads and root products, and also fruits like apples and grapes. The washing system achieves microbial load reduction and prolongation of shelf life and, consequently, increase of quality of products.
