| 摘要 |
<p>A one-site fruit or vegetable processing and packaging facility (10) and method of processing, packaging, and shipping blended juices and juice concentrates. A single extended enclosure is provided within which the facility equipment and associated functions are housed. The facility further includes stages, preferably in seriatim, for (a) receiving raw fruit or vegetables, (b) crushing the fruit or vegetables into a mash, (c) extracting juice from the mash, (d) juice pasteurizing and aroma essence stripping to produce aseptic juice, (e) microfiltration of the aseptic juice and (f) removing excess water from aseptic juice making a concentrated aseptic juice. The concentrated aseptic juice is either placed into bulk shipment containers (48) ready for shipment or blended with separate fruit or vegetable juice concentrates separately received and stored (50) in the facility to produce a desired blended juice with high uniformity and consistency. The blended juice is either sterilized (66) and maintained at a preselected cold-ambient fill temperature or sterilized and maintained at preselected temperature. Each blended juice is then simultaneously and continuously packaged into predetermined self-stable containers ready for shipment.</p> |
