Soft fruit dryer, suitable for dried fruit production and business

Soft Fruit dryers are very popular today to produce dried products such as dried pineapple, dried mango, dried jackfruit, dried dragon fruit. Many types of fruit are now used in soft dried form. Dried fruits are increasingly popular because the natural properties of the fruit are preserved such as color, flavor and nutrients. In this article, we will learn about some suitable types of fruit dryers.

What are the advantages of soft dried fruit?

Although in the past and even now, there are many people who do not like dried fruit as much as crispy dried fruit. But perhaps the consumer trend is shifting from preferring to use crispy dried fruit to using dried fruit. Initially, in the early 2000s, young people preferred crispy fruits such as vinamit, crispy jackfruit, and crispy banana. But gradually, information about these products increasingly shows that these are products with low nutritional value because the products have been processed at high temperatures. You learn more about crispy frying and crispy drying.

The image below is dried mango of Vuon Ba Ba Company, a customer of Mactech. Currently, this unit specializes in producing dried fruit products, dried fruit to supply the tourism and export markets.

Soft Dried fruit is simply fruit dried at low temperature, only the water content is removed from the product, and important properties such as color, flavor, and nutrients are preserved. As we know, many nutrients will be changed or disappear when exposed to high temperature, so fruits or medicinal herbs need to be dried at low temperature, the lower the better. The suitable drying equipment is a fruit dryer with a suitable drying temperature range.

Suitable types of soft fruit dryers

The soft fruit dryer must meet the first criterion of drying the fruit in a soft form, only removing the water content in the fruit, the rest is kept intact, such as the amount of sugar, nutrients, flavor, color, and natural texture of the fruit unchanged. Currently on the market, there are 2 types of fruit dryers commonly used, depending on the type of fruit and the level of investment, the producer can choose the appropriate fruit dryer. These are low-heat dryers and cold dryers.

Low-temperature dryers, also known as household dryers (multi-purpose), are the most popular type of dryer, suitable for users to produce a variety of dried fruits or other products that need to be dried, such as medicinal herbs, dried meat, dried vegetables, and dried starches. With a drying temperature range that can be adjusted from 35 – 95^oC, it is very suitable for drying a variety of products. It also depends on what product we are drying, both are fruits but bananas and mangoes will be dried differently. Dried bananas need to be dried at a high temperature of 60-80^oC to turn to honey color, however, mangoes need to be dried at a low temperature of 20-30^oC.

The cold dryer is a more advanced drying device with a low drying temperature range of 10~60oC. Suitable for products that need to be dried at low temperatures such as dried sliced ​​fruits to make detox tea, precious medicinal herbs, starches, spirulina powder, cordyceps, shiitake mushrooms, drying flowers to make herbal tea. In general, the cold dryer is only suitable for products that need to be dried at low temperatures to limit the negative effects of temperature and the product must have high value.

So we have a basic understanding of fruit dryers, and the important thing to note before choosing a dryer is to determine exactly what products need to be dried, the clearer the purpose, the easier it is to choose the product. For more detailed advice, please contact Mactech directly, thank you for learning about fruit dryers.