CONVENIENCE AND HEALTH FOODS 3 (1+2)

Lesson 10 : Fruit And Vegetable Based Convenience Foods

Convenience foods

Heat processing

In India major thrust in fruit and vegetable processing is by canning and dehydration.

• Aseptic packing: A new technology for aseptic packing i e, processing of fruit juice/concentrate that entered India is bag in box filling.
• Here a sterile product is filled in sterile pack under sterile conditions.
• Dehydration: Dehydrated products like onion, egg powder, tomato powder etc are convenient dehydrated products.
• Freeze drying- Where product is first frozen and then dehydrated by vacuum, it is popular and gives excellent quality.

1. Fruit based convenience foods


2. Vegetable based convenience foods