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juice-concentrate
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Fruit Purees and Concentrates for Industry: Formats, Specifications and Buying Logic
An industrial buyer’s guide to processed fruit formats. What separates a puree from a juice, what concentration does and does not preserve,…
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Fruit Juice Concentrate: Brix, Concentration Ratio and How to Source It
How juice concentrate is actually traded. What reference Brix means and where the figures come from, how to calculate a concentration ratio…
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What is Brix in fruit concentrate?
Degrees Brix measure soluble solids by refractive index. In concentrate trading it is the primary commercial parameter, but only when the temperature…
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Which apple varieties are best for processing?
It depends on the output. Dice and slices need firm, slow-browning flesh; concentrate needs sugar and acid; puree needs breakdown behaviour.
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How is fruit concentrate shipped?
Frozen drums, aseptic bag-in-box on pallets, or flexitank in bulk. The format is decided by volume, destination distance and what the buyer…
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Aroma Recovery
Aroma recovery is the process of capturing volatile flavour compounds that evaporate during juice concentration and returning them to the concentrate or…
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Deaeration
Deaeration is the removal of dissolved oxygen from juice or puree before pasteurisation and filling, carried out under vacuum or by inert-gas…
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NFC Juice
NFC juice, meaning not-from-concentrate juice, is pasteurised fruit juice that has never been concentrated, retaining a flavour profile closer to fresh fruit…
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Homogenization
Homogenization is a mechanical process that forces juice or puree through a narrow gap under high pressure to reduce particle size, stabilise…
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Juice Concentrate
Juice concentrate meaning: juice from which most water has been removed by evaporation, reducing volume for transport and storage while retaining soluble…