Refrigerated fruit juices processing

There is also a market for reconstituted fruit juice made from concentrate and not further processed but maintained, during its short shelf life, by refrigeration. 

Low Temperature Treatment. Many commercial frozen food products are high in ascorbic acid. Refrigeration is used for various fresh fruit juices and for holding many fruits and vegetables prior to retail sale or further processing. 

Styrene-acrylonitrQe (SAN) copolymer is a brittle material but has improved surface hardness and chemical resistance when compared with polystyrene and has excellent resistance to weathering. It is available in granules from transparent pale straw colour through a full range to opaque colours. SAN is processable by injection or blow moulding and extrusion. Applications include table, picnic and kitchen ware where resistance to fruit juices and natural oils is important, cosmetic and pharmaceutical packaging for similar reasons, refrigerator parts, and radio controls and scales. 

Fruit and berry juices are widely used as flavor bases for soft drinks, and most of these are concentrated by the removal of water under vacuum to give a commercial product, which is between four and six times stronger than the original juice. The flavor value of these concentrates depends not only on the degree of concentration but on the precise processing conditions used in their manufacture. From an application point of view, fruit products may be offered in sealed containers that have been pasteurized, in which case the whole contents must be used once the container has been opened, or they may be in multidose containers the contents of which contain a permitted preservative, usually sodium benzoate. All fruit-based flavorings are best stored under refrigeration or in a cold store. Fruit essences also may be... 

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