Home Contact Specialist in fruit processing equipment Fruit bases production Bertuzzi has developed an extensive know-how and proprietary technology for the production of fruits preparations for yogurt, bakery and confectionery industries. Our technology has been developed in order to minimize any mechanical and thermal damage to the fruit and in order to be highly versatile: it allows to process a great variety of raw materials into many different products. Ingredient preparation Fruits are sorted and prepared in a dedicated room. Fruits are usually available frozen or canned or in aseptic bags and may be diced if needed. Fruits that are most commonly used for fruit bases production are apricots, peaches, strawberries, berries, apples, pears, coconuts and oranges. Other ingredients like water, sugar, thickeners and citric acid can be dosed, dissolved and mixed in steam heated tanks before being blended with the fruit. Fruit sorting Fruit dices Liquid phase mixing Blending, pre-heating and dearation Fruits, liquid phase and possibly puree or juice are loaded in the blender. Liquid phase and puree/juice can be loaded by means of vacuum or by pump or by trolley. Trolley can also be used for the fruit pieces. To break down agglomerate of IQF (individually quick frozen) fruits, a special device is provided in the hopper. The ingredients loaded in the pan are blended and heated up by means of low pressure steam running in the jacket and in the pipe stirrer. In this process phase, it is possible to: deaerate and standardize the brix of the product by means of a liquid ring vacuum pump and a tube nest condenser take a sample for analysis purpose and possibly adjust the recipe add thermo-stable aromas. The speed of the stirrer can be adjusted in order to find the best balance between blending, heat transfer and fruit pieces shape preservation. Steam pressure in the stirrer and jacket is adjustable independently, in order to avoid product burning. Liquid phase loading Fruit loading Vacuum group Pasteurization, cooling and filling The product is heated up to pasteurization temperature and hold for the required time. The pasteurizer can be provided of different volumes and it can work at different capacities; to avoid the product burns on the non-wetted upper part of the pan, it is foreseen a system to select which part of the jacket will operate (only bottom or bottom and side). The pasteurizer is placed on a scaffolding, so when pasteurization is completed, the product is directly transferred by gravity, and also with the help of sterile nitrogen or fine filtered steam, to the cooling pan. Cooling process is slower than heating, so more coolers are usually required to assure a continuous filling process. The product can be cooled down to 40°C. The coolers have a special sanitary design in order to assure the asepticity of the product to be cold filled. In this step, the thermo-labile aromas could be added at low temperature. Vacuum can be used also to speed up the cooling phase. As an alternative, the system can be supplied also with a single aseptic pan that assures all phases of the batch, pre-heating, pasteurization and cooling. After cooling, the product is transferred again by gravity with the help of steril nitrogen or of a peristaltic hose pump (recommended for high viscosity products), and packed in aseptic bags of 5 - 25 kg and/or bags in drum of 200 kg and/or in stainless steel reusable tanks (totes). Bags are then manually or automatically packed in cartons and wrapped before being transferred to the cold storage. The shelf life of fruit base yoghurt is 3-4 months at 8-10°C without preservatives and can be extended up to 6 months with preservatives. Pasteurization and cooling group, with one pasteurizer and two coolers Pasteurizer Coolers Our aseptic filler Aseptica Gemina is suited for filling bags-in-drums, bags-in-boxes and totes Interested in our products? Every product means different requirements: tell us your requirements, because we do not only supply machines, but solutions. Contact us Learn more Browse our website for further information. All our processing machines and plants Pre/after sale services Share this page E-mail Facebook Twitter Google+ Linkedin Last updated July 29, 2016   © 2016 Bertuzzi   Privacy policy Bertuzzi Food Processing Srl - A company of Mazzoni LB Spa - Corso Sempione 212 bis, 21052 Busto Arsizio (Italy) - P.IVA/C.F. 04898430964 - Capitale sociale € 110.000