According to the popularity of using dried fruit and vegetables line among people, you may have in mind that starting fruits or vegetable drying line. In this article of Shabchare, we will look at the different stages of the drying fruit and vegetable processing line.

A brief explanation of the drying process

Drying vegetable and fruits is one of the way to increase their shelf-life.

The fresh fruit has a fresh taste and also has more properties, but not all fruits can be found in all seasons. Therefore, there should be a way to increase the shelf life of vegetables and fruits. Dried fruits today are considered as tasty and suitable flavors that can be easily used. Also, among the housewives, the use of dried vegetables for cooking food has gained popularity.

To prepare the proper dry fruit, care should be taken, because if the fruits and vegetables are either too much fresh or whit spots, they will not be good after drying. The freshest fruit, the dried it will also get a better flavor.

Products which can be dried with industrial machines:

1-Fruits and Vegetables:

All type of fruits, mushrooms, onion, figs, apricot, tomatoes, parsley, thyme, eggplant, garlic, peppers, tea, …

2-Grain:

Wheat, barley, rice, soybeans, legumes, herbs, spices, corn, ……

3-Food:

Macaroni, soup, fruit juice and fruit nectar, dairy product, starch, ….

Steps to dry vegetables:

For drying fruits and vegetables we should pass through following stages:

Preparation
Washing
Drying
Cleaning
Packing
Content Quality Control

Washing operation:

In the first step, when fresh vegetables are overspread into the drying line, they are spread on special conveyors to remove the impurities with help of manpower, then enter the disinfection and rinse section.Washing and disinfecting vegetables, due to being brought to the factory massively, is done thoroughly by industrial machines with water and disinfection liquid and perchlorin.

Drying operation:

After the washing process is done on vegetables (by water and disinfectants) and the relevant expert, the vegetables are poured onto the continuous drying conveyor so that after passing through the continuous dryer, the water Lose and turn into dried vegetables. It is important to note that the process of drying vegetables should not harm their properties, such as vitamins, minerals, etc., and even the color of the product is equally important to us, for this reason, the continuous use of dryers The quality of the dried vegetables is of high quality (because of the higher quality when using a continuous dryer, drying is done using a low temperature (60-70 ° C)).

Cleaning Operation:

Dry leaves and extra stems should be separated from the leaves of vegetables. This separation operation is carried out by the sieve, which prepares the vegetables for packaging.

Packing operation:

After qualitative control and formulating them for mixed vegetables, ready-made greens are brought to the packaging. The packaging operation in this unit is performed automatically by several vertical packing machines. The packaging of vegetables depends on the type and size of the product they are asking for.After packaging the dried vegetables by vertical packaging machines, they are being put into the carton and are being prepared in the warehouse of the products.

Machines that is used in drying line:

In addition to the method that we explained in the article above, about drying fruit and vegetable processing line, for different types of drying, other machines used in the food industry are also used, which we will give a brief introduction of each one in the next article.

Universal Dryer

Universal Dryer is a tunnel type dryer that products which took long time to dry them, go through this tunnel in order to dry them with low heat.

Vegetables and fruits are over spread on the tape and pass through a hot air tunnel that makes the fruits and vegetables dry.

Flash Dryer

Flash Dryer dries the products in a few minutes.

The vegetable and fruits are overspread on a tape and a heat dissipation is added to dry them. The machine is used mostly for drying powder.

Spray Dryer

This dryer is used for drying liquid products and make them powder form.

Spray Dryer is used in the chemical industry, the polymer industry and resin, detergents, adhesives, oxides, pigments, ceramics and advanced materials, pharmaceutical industries, blood products, dentistry, food industry, milk products, flavors, dye carriers, Plant extracts, textile industry and etc.

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Fruits and vegetables drying line

A brief explanation of the drying process