Son Dung Tea Cooperative, produce lotus tea, uses freeze dryer

You want to develop new products in the field of green tea production, so please refer to some facilities specializing in the production of high-end tea like in this content. You will not only better understand how to make and use any dryer but also understand the marketing methods of tea producers on the market today. The images below are collected from SON DUNG TEA Cooperative, website https://sondungtra.vn/, a Customer of Mactech.

Producing marinated lotus tea is becoming a trend today, because this is not only a new tea product but also a high-end tea product that is difficult to produce and dry using today’s common drying methods. Therefore, in addition to familiar green tea products such as bud tea, Tan Cuong tea, and balled tea, tea marinated with lotus pistil or tea marinated with lotus flowers has been produced using new technology today.

With lotus tea marinated with whole flowers, there are some very important characteristics in the drying process, 1 is the large size of the flower, making it difficult to dry completely, 2 is the color of the lotus seedpod inside the lotus flower, which is easy to darken, no longer has a natural yellow color, so whole lotus marinated tea is usually stored in the refrigerator for later use if there is no effective way to dry it. The SON DUNG TEA Cooperative is just one of many high-end tea production facilities on the market, currently using freeze dryers to ensure completely dry lotus tea flowers, maintaining high quality.

With popular dryers such as heat pump dryers or Circulating hot air dryers, they are currently only suitable for drying thin, volatile products, suitable for drying roses, jasmine, yellow chrysanthemums, drying sliced vegetables, drying soft fruits… But when drying large products such as lotus-marinated tea flowers, durian segments, strawberries… must be freeze drying to ensure effectiveness and preserve good nutrition.

Drying lotus tea, a freeze drying process will include the following basic stages: Freezing the product to -25^oC for 4-6 hours, Vacuum the drying chamber to 0~50pa, Increasing the temperature to 40^oC for 20-25 hours will ensure complete dryness, inside and out the lotus flower will be the same, retaining its natural color, aroma and nutrition very well. Total drying time for one drying batch is usually about 25-35 hours, depending on product thickness and actual quantity.

SON DUNG Tea Cooperative currently provides product information on the online channels such as website, facebook, youtube, … so if you want to learn about this facility, it is also very easy to understand how they sells in the current market.

So, through basic analytical information, Readers have learned more about Son Dung Tea cooperative with high-end tea products as well as how to dry lotus marinated tea. Customers who need advice on drying all kinds of products, please contact Mactech Vietnam via Hotline, thank you for understanding the shared content.