PEACH BEVERAGE AND ITS PRODUCTION

摘要

PURPOSE: To provide a method for producing peach beverage, capable of simultaneously tasting refreshing feeling and flesh feeling of peach and drinkable. CONSTITUTION: When peach beverage consisting essentially of squeezed solution of peach is produced, peach is cut or broken into a prescribed form by a crusher 10 and immersed into sugar solution to afford solid flesh of peach and squeezed solution controlled in sugar content and the solid flesh is mixed with the squeezed solution by stirring with a stirrer 16 and a nitrogen gas blown from a blowing pipe 18 in a blend tank 14 to provide a mixed liquid in which solid flesh is dispersed into the squeezed liquid in a state in which solid shape of solid flesh is retained and the mixed liquid is fed to a sterilizing apparatus 22 comprising a tube-type heat exchanger using a rotary pump 20 and the mixed liquid is subjected to heat sterilization treatment while retaining form of solid flesh in the sterilizing apparatus 22.