Some knowledge you don’t know about Fruit-Vegetable powder

Fruit and vegetable powder is the powder or granules which after dehydration of juice, pulp and fruit of fruits. It retains all or part of the taste, fiber, color, nutrition or other ingredients of fruits and vegetables, and it becomes a healthy ingredients to produce the taste and flavor of food. Around in 2000 years , fruit and vegetable powder gradually entered the food ingredients market, mainly used in instantly foods at first, and then gradually used in functional solid drinks,Dextrose candies, and flavorings. In the 2010 years around , functional solid drinks such as: Probiotics powder, enzyme powder,egg, meal replacement powder and so on, most of them began to use fruit and vegetable powder , the advantages are natural health, convenient application, reduce seasoning research and development time, product characteristics are more stable. Until today, fruit and vegetable powder has become an indispensable ingredient for natural flavoring, which is used without limit and without any safety risk. And gradually increase the demand for functional fruit powder, such as acerola cherry powder, roxburgh rose powder, cranberry powder, elderberry and so on.

1. Spray dried fruit and vegetable powder:

It is mainly made of raw fruit juice, concentrated juice and slurry after instantaneous high temperature spray drying. The product has the advantages in fine powder, uniform color and taste, good rehydration, stable character, easy control of production process, moderate production energy consumption, and large capacity. The disadvantages include: the product needs to use excipients as carriers, the juice content should not be too high, the color and flavor are partially lost in the process, the heat-sensitive materials are easy to oxidize, and the moisture absorption is strong; Spray-dried fruit and vegetable powder is still the mainstream product and it increasingly recognized by the market.

2. Freeze-dried fruit and vegetable powder:

It mainly uses frozen fruit to sublimate the water in the fruit under the condition of low temperature vacuum, so that can get dried fruit, which can be made into a whole, sliced, diced, ground into powder; The advantages of freeze-dried fruit and vegetable powder are that it can retain most of the flavor and color of fruits and vegetables, keep nutrients from losing, retain the solids of fruits and vegetables, have high fiber content and good rehydration. The disadvantages is that the process is relatively high power consumption, easy to change color,no have high temperature resistance, poor water solubility. Due to cost and solubility, the product also has some certain limitations in application.

3.Roller dried fruit and vegetable powder:

Mainly for varieties with high starch content, after pulping, they are dried by roller and made into flake and powder products. The advantage lies in low energy consumption and stable product character. The disadvantage is that the product has strong limitations, only a few products are suitable for this drying method and cannot be popularized.

4. Hot air drying fruit and vegetable powder：

Mainly on fruits and vegetables such as leaf after blanching, using hot air dryers to dry, then powder or granulated, product character is stable, General rehydration , low energy consumption, health indicators control is difficult, should only be used after sterilization, usually use this way in vegetable products is more, in early use for instant noodles the relish. With the improvement of pretreatment technology, the application of hot air drying fruit and vegetable powder is more and more extensive.

All in all: The determine of the fruit and vegetable powder application based on the production process. spray drying easy to dissolve in water, it is the mainly ingredients for provide the taste , freeze-dried fruit and vegetable powder contains rich fruit fiber, taste is real, cost is higher, more use for foreign breakfast cereals,it is used less in China, hot air drying of low cost,but health indicators difficult to control,so it need to be used after sterilization,the cost is increased and product stability is not strong ; Roller dried fruit and vegetable powder is mainly for a few fruits and vegetables with high starch content, such as purple potato, sweet potato, pumpkin and so on. In general, spray-dried fruit and vegetable powder has more varieties, and the applicability is relatively wide. The production efficiency, product quality and cost performance are relatively has advantages , and the market prospect is more optimistic. If you more care for Nutrition, Freeze dried will be your best choice.

Application for Fruit and vegetable

1. Protein solid drink: used to enrich the taste of products, or to correct the flavor of original taste, commonly used flavors are: strawberry powder , banana powder , blueberry powder , sweet orange powder , papaya powder,pumpkin powder, Avocado Fruit Powder etc.

2.  Sports solid drink: used to increase the taste of the product, Cover or correct the odor of vitamins or minerals, commonly used flavors are: grapefruit powder , lime powder , orange powder , peach powder ,apple powder,banana powder ,water melon powder ,grape powder ,cranberry powder. pear powder, Black Goji Berry Powder,Goji Berry Powder .

3. Meal replacement powder: contains fruit and vegetable meal replacement powder, cereal meal replacement powder, milkshake meal replacement powder and other categories, commonly used flavors are: banana powder , pineapple powder , mulberry powder , kiwifruit powder, longan powder , litchi powder etc.

4. Probiotic powder: used to adjust the taste of products, commonly used flavors are: apple powder , pineapple powder , kiwi powder , red cherry powder , blueberry powder , cranberry powder, Waxberry Fruit Powder etc.

5. Enzyme powder: Most of the enzymes are from fruits and vegetables, which are used to enrich the taste of products and increase the flavor characteristics of fruits. Common flavors include: pineapple powder , papaya powder , kiwi powder , dragon fruit powder , blueberry powder, Blackberry Fruit Powder, Almond Powder,Mangosteen Powder.Noni Fruit Powder, Broccoli Powder etc.

6.  Baby rice flour, mainly with fresh sweet taste,use for adjust the taste of rice flour, commonly used flavors are: Dragon fruit powder ,orange powder, apple powder, banana powder , blueberry powder , carrot powder, spinach powder , loquat powder ,Purple Potato Powder,Red Jujube Powder ,Maqui Berry Powder etc.

7. Tablet candy: contains chewable slices, effervescent slices, milk slices, etc., to enhance the taste of juice, commonly used flavors include orange powder, lemon powder, peach powder, strawberry powder, mango powder,Mulberry Fruit Powder ,Sugarcane Powder ,tropical fruits powder,Fig Fruit Powder.

8. Puffed food: contains potato chips, popcorn, rolled pastry, used for seasoning powder texture base, common flavors are: mango powder, cucumber powder , lemon powder, blueberry powder , strawberry powder , pineapple powder,Passion Fruit Powder .

9. Chocolate food, including sandwich cookies, coated cookies, chocolate coating materials, white chocolate, add fruit and vegetable powder, increase color and taste, commonly used flavors are: dragon fruit, strawberry powder, mango powder , blueberry powder, kiwi powder, lemon powder, durian powder, etc