Guava Juice Concentrate Production Flowchart

Fruit unloading

Grading 1

No

Fruit unsuitable for juice-making. They are trasported to mill feed

Yes

Storage bin

The raw materials were stored here if they are not to be used immediately

Washer

The suitable fruits are washed to eliminate debris and dirts from transport and growth

Grading 2

No

Unsuitable fruits were eliminated and transported to mill feeder, where they are pelleted for making animal feed. This can be a source for a side income.

Yes

Juice extractor

The fruits are grinded and the juice are extracted

Packaging

The juice were poured into airtight packaging

Pasteurisation

Heat treatment of the juice was done to prevent microbial contamination

Freeze concentration

Formation of concentrate

in this process, water freezes first, forming ice crystals in the mixture

Prior to completing of freezing the unfrozen component of the mixture are extracted

Centrifugation

Continuing the freeze concentration, the slush extracted were contrifugated through fine mesh screen.

The remaining frozen water are extracted from a fine-mesh screen and discarded

Frozen storage tank

The concentrated product are stored in a very cold temperature, around -18 degree celcius or lower in their packaged form