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Frozen Food Overview – Free Online Information

This 28 page document is the Food Vision of the British Frozen Food Industry.

from: British Frozen Food Industry (click image for full story online)

Although the document considers the British industry it is packed with information that would be of value to anyone, anywhere considering entering the frozen food market.

There are detailed [...]

Interesting Engineering Approach To Sustainable, Passive Fruit & Vegetable Cooling.

Here is the design specification for short term food preservation for Pabal farmers as drawn up by an investigation team that included the University of Cambridge and Engineers Without Borders. Interestingly the need was very similar to what many before them had identified.

from: Eng India (click image for full story online)

They have [...]

Summary of Leatherhead’s “The Global Market for Food Colours” Report

This is a short, 2 page summary of a report by Leatherhead on the world food colourant market.

from: FoodBev (click image for full story online)

As well as information on the market and market trends the summary lists, with brief explanations, the four largest suppliers and the food groups where colourants are [...]

Improved Tamarind Beverage Process – Scientific Paper Series

This is a paper looking at the potential of a less used Nigerian traditional drink produced from Tamarind

from: AJFAND (click image for full story online)

The paper looks at different recipes based on the level of the added Ginger, Clove and Pepper. It presents taste and analytical results along with traditional and improved process [...]

Filling Machine Selection Table

Having read the previous post and followed up by looking on the APACKS website at other types of fillers you may be wondering how to choose what filler to use for your particular application.

from: APACKS (click image for full story online)

This table seems to be a good and thorough support to the [...]

Gravity Filling Equipment – Equipment Series

This nice and simple explanation of how gravity filling works is one of the many useful pieces of information on the APACKS website.

from: APACKS (click image for full story online)

This shows clearly how the fill volume is controlled by the very simple tactic of stopping the escape of air from above [...]

Aseptic Filling Machine – Equipment Series

Aseptically packaged milk and juice has probably had the biggest impact of any technology in the beverages industry in the last 50 years.

One of the packaging machines of the Tetrapak, the company that started the trend by fabricating an aseptic machine, is pictured below.

 

from: TetraPak (click image for full story [...]

Food Drying – An Overview With Good Links

This is a short 10 page note from The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service . It summarises the various drying technologies applicable to food drying in a concise manner, supporting this with some cost information.

 

from: ATTRA (click image for full story online)

 

It then focusses on the potential of drying as a [...]

How I Spent My 67 Minutes in Honour of Nelson Mandela.

I’m a firm believer in people doing best, if they work for themselves rather than accept handouts. I therefore support SMME job creation as one of the tools to removing poverty in rural areas of South Africa. However, many of those in poverty in South Africa need information to support them in starting their own [...]

Falling Film Evaporator – Equipment Series

Falling Film Evaporators are designed for the production of concentrates from heat sensitive liquids.

 

from: GEA-Wiegand (click image for full story online)

 

The text on the above image from a Wiegand brochure reads:

FALLING FILM EVAPORATORS

Design Vertical shell-and-tube heat exchanger, with laterally or con- centrically arranged centrifugal separator.

Operation The liquid [...]