Vegetable Drying Machine Manufacturers

Vegetable drying machines — applications and process

Dehydrated vegetables (dried vegetable ingredients) are widely used in instant noodles, soups, seasonings, snack mixes, ready meals, and pet food as convenient, shelf-stable ingredients. Commercial vegetable drying processes typically include: washing and inspection (removal of foreign material and off-grade material — see food washing and sorting pages); size reduction (slicing, dicing, mincing, or grinding to the target piece size or particle size); blanching (brief heat treatment in steam or hot water to inactivate enzymes that would cause colour and flavour degradation during drying — essential for most vegetables before drying); drying (belt dryer for most diced and sliced vegetables; tray dryer for smaller batches and varied products; rotary drum dryer for leafy, granular, or small-piece products); cooling; sieving and quality inspection; packing in moisture-barrier packaging. Key vegetable drying products include: dehydrated onion (flakes, granules, powder); dehydrated garlic (granules, powder); chilli powder and flakes; dehydrated tomato (flakes, powder); carrot dices; and mixed vegetable soup ingredients.