Dragon fruit has the effects of preventing, promoting eye health, increasing bone density, helping to form, preventing anemia and anti neuropathy, reducing cholesterol, whitening the skin and preventing dark spots. In addition, it also has the effects of relieving heavy metal poisoning, resisting free radicals, preventing age-related diseases, slimming, and preventing colorectal cancer. Recent research results have shown that the juice of dragon fruit and branches has a positive effect on the growth, virus and immune response inhibition of diseases.
Manufacturer of automatic dragon beverage production line
The dragon fruit beverage production line is transported to the washing and sorting area through a water tank or conveyor belt using mechanical or hydraulic transmission methods. After removing surface impurities from fruits, they are classified manually or through electronic systems. Usually, fruit pretreatment involves the integration of a series of processes such as peeling, crushing, slicing, antioxidant treatment and purification, as well as additional grading and classification.
Process flow of Huolong fruit juice beverage production line:
Cleaning (Cleaning Machine) – Fruit Inspection (Fruit Inspection Machine) – Crushing (Crusher) – Beating (Beating Machine) – Juice Extraction (Juicer) – Filtration (Filter) – Concentrator (Concentrator) – Mixing (Mixing Tank) – Sterilization (Sterilizer) – Aseptic Storage (Aseptic Storage Tank) – Aseptic Filling – Finished Product Packaging
Equipment for Huolong Juice Beverage Production Line:
Fruit elevator: a high-level elevator used for low-level lifting of fruits during cleaning and conveying them to the crushing station after picking.
Fruit washing machine: surfing type, drum brush type cleaning machine: used for cleaning and preliminary selection of ordinary fruits, as well as cleaning fruits with high cleaning requirements such as carrots.
Crusher: Hammer crusher and squirrel cage crusher are used for initial crushing of fruits and vegetables. Fully automatic dragon juice beverage production equipment, small and medium-sized dragon juice filling production line
Preheating enzyme inactivation machine: used for timely pasteurization, enzyme inactivation, color protection, and softening of crushed materials.
Beating machine: used to mash and extract juice or sauce from tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries, mangoes, peaches, apricots, peaches and other berries or pre cooked stone fruits.
Juicer: Spiral juicer and belt juicer are suitable for juicing Renguo fruits such as apples, pears, and Renguo, with high juice yield.
Vacuum Concentrator: Ascending and Falling Film Dragon Juice Concentrator Series, Forced External Circulation Jam Concentrator Series.
Sleeve sterilization machine: using steam, hot water, and cold water as heat transfer media, especially suitable for sterilization of low and medium viscosity materials.
Aseptic filling machine: Equipped with a sterile room, it uses a robotic arm to automatically complete processes such as opening, canning, measuring, and closing lids under isolated conditions from the outside world.
The characteristics of dragon fruit beverage:
- The anthocyanin content in dragon fruit is relatively high, especially in red meat varieties. Anthocyanins are a highly effective antioxidant that can effectively prevent arteriosclerosis, thereby preventing heart attacks and stroke caused by blood clot formation; It can also fight against free radicals and effectively resist aging; It can also improve the prevention of brain cell degeneration and inhibit the occurrence of dementia.
- Dragon fruit is rich in plant-based albumin, which is less commonly found in fruits and vegetables. This active albumin automatically binds to heavy metal ions in the human body and is excreted through the excretory system, thus playing a detoxifying role. In addition, albumin has a protective effect on the gastric wall.
- Dragon fruit is rich in vitamin C for whitening the skin and water-soluble dietary fiber for weight loss, lowering blood sugar, moisturizing the intestines, and preventing colorectal cancer.
- The iron content in dragon fruit is higher than that of ordinary fruits. Iron is an essential element for producing hemoglobin and other iron substances. Consuming an appropriate amount of iron can also prevent anemia.
Dragon Fruit Processing Key Machines Introduction
Dragon fruit washing and sorting machine
Dragon fruits are harvested in crates and transported to the dragon fruit processing plant, and the fresh fruits will be fed into air bubble washing machines. The bubble washing machines will have two stages, the first stage bubble washer mainly getting rid of the pesticide residue by cleaning solution, then the fresh fruits will be lifted to brush washing machines and use pure water to clean again of the surface of the fresh fruits. The low-quality fruits will be sorted out manually on the roller sorting conveyor or belt conveyor.
Dragon fruit peeling and pulping machine
The fresh dragon fruits can be peeled by the fruit stone washing machine, the stone washing machine sieve screen can be set at 2mm, and at this condition, the fruit peel can be separated with good effect. But the seeds are still in dragon fruit pulp, so after that, the pulp will be pumped to the double-stage pulping machine (0.7-1.2mm sieve screen) to separate the seeds in fruit pulp and get more smooth fruit pulp by the fruit pulping machine. After the double-stage pulping machines, the pulp yield rate is about 75%-78%. During the dragon fruit crushing and peeling process, the VC color-protecting agent can be dosed into fruit mash to avoid fruit pulp oxidation.
Dragon fruit juice separating machine
To get the pure dragon fruit juice, the fruit flesh need to be separated. The separation process can use juice refiner, decanter centrifuge separator or stack separator. Depending of the fruit pulp content in fruit juice, choose the suitable machines to separate the solids in juice, and the solid separating percentage can be adjusted by the separating machines.
Dragon fruit pulp/juice homogenizer, sterilizer/pasteurizer and filler
The dragon fruit juice is separated, to extend the shelf life, need to do heat treatment by the pasteurizererilizer based on different filling temperatures and filling containers.
The pomegranate pulp/juice will be preheated to 50-70℃, then pumped into one double-stage high-pressure homogenizer with a pressure range between 15-30MPa, then after homogenization, the material will go for sterilization/pasteurization.
–For the dragon fruit juice/pulp filled into the aseptic bags or cartons, the fruit juice or pulp will be sterilized at 115℃ for 30-60S with UHT treatment, and the juice/pulp will be filled into the cartons and bags at room temperature at the sterile environment with tubular UHT sterilizer.
–The plate or tubular pasteurizer will pasteurize dragon fruit juice/pulp hot-filled into cans, bottles, and soft bags, and the juice/pulp will be pasteurized at 95℃ for 15 seconds, after filling, the containers will be sent to tunnel pasteurizer or water bath pasteurizer to do the secondary pasteurization.