Jam Production Line
Most of the fruits are suitable for processing into the fruit jam, such as apples, plums, and pineapples, etc. And the raw material for fruit jam processing must be fresh fruits or frozen fruits. Because this will ensure the quality of the final jam. But how to make jam from fruits? The details are as follows:
What ingredients you can add in fruits jam processing?
The four necessary ingredients in manufacturing jams include fut, pectin, sugar and acid. And optional ingredients include spice, buffering agents, preservatives, and antifoaming agents.
Fruit pulp is the main ingredient in fruit jam, use fresh unripe fruits as raw material. And then you can use the beating machine to make the fruit into fruit pulp.
Pectin is needed to make the fruit set into a gel. There are pectin in all kinds of fruits. But the contain level is different, citrus, apple, passion fruits have higher level, whereas berry fruits have a lower level. In order to make standardized gel in fruit jam, we would better buy pectin powder or pectin solution as ingredients to add to the mixing tanks.
Sugar has two main functions in fruit jam processing plant increase jam flavor and prevent microbial spoilage. And the sugar concentration is between 68%-72% is the best. So the premium quality refined sugar will be dissolved in water to make into syrup, then through double filter separation and pumped into the mixing tank.
The fruit jam needs to ave a high-level acidity(PH -3.0 – 3.3) to enable the pectin form the gel. High acid fruit pulp like citrus, apple do not need. But when we make banana, papaya, berry fruits jam, we need to add citric acid, malic acid or tartaric acids to adjust the fruit jam PH to 3.
What equipment is mainly used to produce fruit jam?
There are four machines produce fruit jam as the mainly equipment.
Fruits cutter
Before pulping, you need to cut the fruit for subsequent production. There are types of fruits cutter for your choice in FPL.
This machine plays an important role in fruit jam processing. It can automatically separate fruits slurry and residue, and will eliminate the core.
Vacuum concentrator
It can remove excessive water in fruit jam, in order to get highly concentrated jam and guarantee its taste.
Sterilization equipment
This step is an important step in storage. It can remove all bacteria, yeasts, fungi and organisms so that when you fill the jam, the food will remain fresh within the vacuum.
What can you do to upgrade your fruit jam processing?
If you want to make fruit jam in a simple manner, you only need to buy fruit cutter, pulp making machine, vacuum concentrator and sterilization machine. However, provided you plan to upgrade this fruit jam manufacturing system, you also need to purchase machines as follows:
Fruit washing machine
It is mainly divided into two cleaning processes. Using techniques such as bubble tumbling, brushing, and high-pressure spraying to clean fruits to the greatest extent. So you can use air bubble washing machine to clean fruits.
Blanching equipment
After blanching, it can protect the unique fresh color of fruits, retain the fragrance and improve the softness of cells. Then to lay a good foundation for the process requirements of the next beating process.
Jam filling machine
We can provide you with a type of special packaging machine for jam. And it can adjust the weight of filling machine according to your needs.
